The co-author of All the President's Men told CNN that Mitch McConnell had a strategy to 'wear out his own members' to stop a vote for more witnesses.
Carl Bernstein said there are six to nine Republicans in the Senate who could"make some kind of statement" or vote for witnesses in the ongoing impeachment trial.
The author made his comments on CNN yesterday after House impeachment managers laid out their opening arguments in favor of President Donald Trump's impeachment and removal from office. Carl Bernstein attends the 2017 New Yorker Festival at SVA Theatre on October 6, 2017 in New York City.Speaking to the Anderson Cooper 360 show on Wednesday, Bernstein said:"This is a hugely damaging narrative that was laid out today, and Mitch McConnell understands, and has understood that this hugely damaging narrative was going to affect his members.
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