The Senate voted to allow witnesses to testify in Donald Trump's impeachment trial, after the House prosecutors said they would seek the testimony of Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.) about her knowledge of a call between the ex-president and House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy as violence escalated at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
The decision could prolong the Senate's impeachment trial of Trump for inciting the insurrection that day. Herrera Beutler has indicated that McCarthy related to her the details of the phone call in which Trump denied a demand to call off the rioters despite McCarthy's pleas.
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