BLITZER: Hello, I'm Wolf Blitzer. Welcome to CNN's special live coverage of the impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump.</s>TAPPER: And I'm Jake Tapper along with Dana Bash who is leading CNN's coverage on Capitol Hill. Today is round two of the high stakes question and answer portion of the Senate trial. In just a few moments, senators will get their final chance to ask their most pressing questions of the House impeachment managers and President Trump's defense team. Which means now is the time for senators to try to get any last minute clarity or answers to their questions ahead of tomorrow's expected vote on whether to call additional witnesses.</s>BLITZER: Today could certainly set the stage for a rather testy debate tomorrow as Senate Republicans are on the brink of bringing this trial to a quick and sudden close. The big question right now is this could President Trump be acquitted by tomorrow night. The short answer is clearly maybe. We know that seems to be the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's plan if the witness vote fails, but right now it's still very much up to a handful of undecided Senate Republicans. And Jake, it clearly -- as far as we know, it could go either way right now. There are still some undecided Republicans. And by the way, as far as of the final vote, there are some undecided apparently, Democrats.</s>TAPPER: That's right. We expect there that will be at least two Republicans, Senator Mitt Romney of Utah and Susan Collins of Maine, who will join with the 47 Democrats, and that will be 49 votes in favor of new witnesses. But that's not enough. You need 51. And so all eyes are on Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee. And the as you know, assuming that there is not a vote in support of more witnesses, is there then going to be a vote in favor of a quitting President Trump, and it seems likely --
Senate Republicans on Brink of Bringing Trump Trial to End