CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Illinois U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth promises to keep an open mind as the Senate begins to hear arguments in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
Senator Tammy Duckworth told reporters she was leaving a Martin Luther King Day celebration on the West Side to catch a plane back to Washington, D.C. There she, Senior Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, and others in the U.S. Senate will serve as jurors in President Trump’s impeachment trial. She shared some of her feelings.
"I would like there to be more cameras, I would like them to release the reporters, the media, from the pens they have them set into; and then I also want witnesses, but other than that, I am keeping my opinions to myself. I am going to keep my mind open and I am going to be a juror the way I am supposed to be for the constitution," she said.
Duckworth said she doesn’t understand how you can have a trial without witnesses, but she said that’s what it seems the Republican majority wants to do.
"I don't see how you can have a fair trial without witnesses. I heard one of my colleagues say trials have witnesses, cover-ups don't and right now, I don't see how we move forward without witnesses."