The united states Senate will take on Friday and a decision on the hearing of new witnesses, and request documents from the afzettingsrechtszaak president, Donald Trump. Follow the developments live.

Hello, and welcome to this liveblog. My name is Matthijs le Loux and I will be to you tonight to inform you of the latest developments in the legal proceedings against the U.s. president when He is in the Senate. For the senators to take an important decision today: will the Senate’s new, hear evidence and make new documents to get it?

for example, If the Republican majority decides not to do so, it would be the afzettingszaak at Home as possible tonight and has already come to an end with the final vote and the acquittal of the president. It is possible for the Democrats, this is still well down the parliamentary steps.

if you Have a question? Please send it to redactie@nu.nl and, you may find the answer in this liveblog is over. is a 5-minute geledenTrump denies it all, reports the New York Times correspondent, Maggie Haberman, a statement from the White House, and received. “I’m John Bolton, never been given the task of a meeting to be arranged for Rudy Giuliani, one of the largest corruptiebestrijders in America, and it is by far the best mayor in the history of New York city, to serve as the president Zelensky is to be found. That meeting never took place.”

Bolton wrote, according to the newspaper, in his book, that he has a conscious command of the Home are not performed.

the POTUS statement: “I never instructed John Bolton to set up a meeting for Rudy Giuliani, one of the greatest corruption fighters in the united states, and by far, the greatest mayor in the history of N. Y. C. to meet with President Zelensky. That meeting never happened” https://t.co/f9SOgKs9VO

AvatarAuteurMaggie HabermanMoment of plaatsen18:37 – 31-January-202010-minute geledenVolgens The New York Times, writes a former national security advisor, John Bolton, in his memoirs, that He to him, rather than adopted, ordered to assist in a pressiecampagne against the Ukrainian government in order to force the Trumps Democratic rivals to damage them.

The newspaper reports that the president is in Bolton, according to the book, and in may gave the order to his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani-and to help you get a meeting with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to be arranged.

Revelations from the book of Bolton argued last week that the pressure on the Senate to give him for a witness to be heard on it.A 16-geledenDe Democrats want a debate about the new witnesses, the public, will be conducted, as in the rest of the process. “The American people need to hear what any senator thinks, and why they are voting as they are voting for, and we will do everything we can to make sure that it is done,” said the leader of the Democrats in the Senate, Chuck Schumer earlier today.

It is not clear if Republicans agree to will be. The debates between the senators, during a deposition process, in the past, take place behind closed doors.An 18-minute geledenEen a spokesperson for CNN said the White House are positioning themselves, and preparing the process for a few more days, it will go on. “Twenty years in the future, everyone will only be talking about the discharge, it does not have the timing,” he said.A 20-minute geledenWaar are we to do? That He will be acquitted of all charges, and was even before the trial began, almost for sure. A afzettingsrechtszaak, it is a political process, and it Trumps the Republican Party has a majority in the Senate and has the support of his.

It will from now on focus on the completion of the process. The Republicans want it as soon as possible to get things done, in good time prior to the president on the 4th of February the annual ” State of the Union speech.

The Democrats are able to try out the process in a couple of days of stretching, for example, by the Republicans in the vote on the new evidence of flooding with the proposed changes. However, there is a question as to what they could achieve. A number of Democratic senators that will participate in the primary elections of their party, and will prefer to be back on the campaign. In the first, Democratic, widow on 3 February, in Iowa.A 26-minute geledenVanochtend reported to my colleagues that the chance that there will be more witnesses will be called on to virtually nil, it seemed, after the first Republican senator Lamar Alexander said that it is not necessary to find it.The 28-minute geledenDe the Republicans in the Senate are confident they have enough votes to get to the hearing of new witnesses to the block. It is currently being gathered about the process at Home as soon as possible, to put an end to be brought, as soon as the decision has been taken.

It is not at all clear as to how the session will have expired. In the past, argued senators are behind closed doors making decisions during a deposition process. If the Republicans have 51 votes to be able to gather, they can also choose to have a debate about it, to save it. Back up