Claire McCaskill reporting current plan is that there will NOT be witnesses on the Senate floor.

[brooklynite]

Congresswoman Herrera Beutler would be deposed, and the transcript would be entered into the Court record.

[Karadeniz]

1. No!!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. That's actually not a bad development. It prevents the Trump "lawyers"

from turning the testimony into a circus with performatively hostile cross-examination for the sole benefit of one single tv viewer.

[Zoonart]

2. I thought Raskin mentioned ZOOM?

[brooklynite]

3. This is what the Senators are working out. Not the House Managers or Defense Lawyers

[Zoonart]

5. Got it.

Thanks.

[highplainsdem]

6. I was posting about this at the same time, and included a tweet from an ABC reporter who's also

hearing there won't be witnesses.

McCaskill is saying the GOP Senators are willing to let the GOP Congresswoman's reported remarks be inclluded in the record.

I hope this is wrong. It seems like a way for the GOP to sweep this bombshell news under the rug as fast as possible.