
Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr predicted the Senate impeachment trial will last for “six to eight weeks.”
Burr added that he doesn’t think much will be learned from the upcoming public hearings this week in front of the House Intelligence Committee since most of transcripts of the testimonies have already been made public.
The North Carolina Republican made those comments during a conversation at Wake Forest University on Monday, with Democratic Sen. Mark Warner, the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Burr, a Wake Forest alum, said he’s been through impeachment before and “nobody wins.”
“No party wins. The American people don’t win," he said.
Burr would not comment on the outcome of impeachment proceedings due to the “likelihood” that he will be a juror in an impeachment trial, but he described the trial process to a crowd in an auditorium at Wake Forest.
“The day the [Senate] takes it up, we go into session six days a week from 12:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m.,” he said.