Breaking on WaPo and WSJ, reported on Drudge and Fox: Mitch lacks votes to block witnesses:
“at a meeting of all Republican senators late Tuesday, GOP leaders told their conference that they don’t currently have the votes to prevent witnesses from being called. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) said the vote total wasn’t where it needed to be on blocking witnesses or documents. He had a card with “yes,” “no,” and “maybes” marked on it, apparently a whip count, but he didn’t show it to senators”.
If he’s not showing the numbers, its got to be bad for the make-this-thing-go-away-quickly bunch. To be continued. As noted, Drudge and Fox are reporting this too, so it is definitely a thing.
update: lost for now is in the fine print, yeh, but let’s remember the case against Nixon was also iffy until the smoking gun tape, and the ire of the Senators who found out they had been burned because he was sitting on it. And so with Bolton?