CNN's donlemon: 'Senators are working overtime to come up with reasons for not calling Bolton to testify.'
While Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told his conference Tuesday the votes aren't there yet, Senate Republicans are growing confident they can defeat a vote on witnesses after weathering the storm in the wake of revelations from former national security adviser John Bolton's draft book manuscript that Trump told him US security assistance to Ukraine was conditioned on investigations into Democrats, including the Bidens.
Romney also said the an idea that's percolated in Republican circles in recent weeks — that if they're forced to hear from witnesses, it has to be reciprocal —"has some merit."Senate gets its turn to ask questionsThe question of witnesses will be addressed later in the week. McConnell said an agreement had been reached with Senate Democrats to hold two days of questions for senators on Wednesday and Thursday, alternating between a Republican question and a Democratic question.
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