Republicans Confident They’ll Sink Witness Vote

Axios: “The whip count is still fluid, but GOP senators are far more optimistic after yesterday’s eight-hour session than they were following their closed-door meeting on Tuesday. The Tuesday night meeting was strategically timed — and played exactly the role that Republican leaders had hoped it would.”

“Sources familiar with the meeting tell Axios that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told his conference that they did not yet have the votes to block witnesses, knowing that the news would likely leak to the media and alarm some senators who dread both a prolonged impeachment trial and Trump’s Twitter wrath.”