GOP senators plan to tune out impeachment week
By Jordain Carney - 11/10/19 06:00 AM EST
As Washington gears up this week for the public phase of the impeachment inquiry, one group is largely tuning it out: Senate Republicans.
Several GOP senators say they either won’t watch the highly anticipated public hearings or haven’t been reading the steady release of transcripts from the House’s closed-door depositions with current and former administration officials.
The reasons vary — some say they don’t have enough time, while others say they distrust the House process. But the decision to disengage underscores the divide between the two sides of the Capitol: on one, impeachment appears all but inevitable; on the other, the potential jury is hanging back, for now.
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