‘A really shameful episode in our history’: Legendary Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein accused the GOP of a cover-up over Trump’s impeachment

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Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein speaking to CNN on Thursday night.CNN

Carl Bernstein, one of the two investigative reporters who exposed the 1970s Watergate scandal, has accused Senate Republicans of abetting a cover-up as the prospects of calling new witnesses in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial continue to fade.

“They have covered up what the President of the United States has done in his grievous action when they had the ability to find out more, and reach a bipartisan, as it were, decision if we could hear from the witnesses,” Bernstein told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday night.

He then described the action as a “cover-up, plain and simple.”