CNN first reported Collins wrote Roberts a note, though she did not previously confirm it to reporters.
Nadler has been the target of harsh Republican criticism. But Collins said the midnight exchange came when “everyone was getting very tired” and that it wouldn’t affect how she votes on whether to call witnesses next week or her overall view of the case.
“I’m going to cast my vote regardless of the congressman’s performance,” Collins said. “His negative comments about the Senate will not have any impact.”
She said she’s also still likely to support having a debate on witnesses given her lingering questions about the impeachment trial, which centers on Trump’s request for a Ukrainian investigation into Joe Biden and a freeze in aid to Ukraine. She said she’s filled up 25 pages of her notepad in the first two days of the trial, many of which are queries she wants answered during the Senate’s 16-hour question-and-answer period next week.
“I already have a list of questions in the margin of the extensive notepad that I’ve been filling up every day of questions that I’d like to know the answers to. Now, maybe they’ll all be answered,” she said. “But I would doubt that.”
Source: politico.com
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