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His personal attorney, rudy giuliani, also weighing in, saying he'd be willing to testify and would love to try the case. this, as another senate republican suggests she's open to hearing from witnesses. abc's kyra phillips is in florida. >> reporter: tonight, a new year and an impeachment trial looming, but the president, kicking off 2020 in mar-a-lago, sounding optimistic. >> as far as i'm concerned, i'd be very happy with a trial, because we did nothing wrong. >> reporter: the key question for senators -- will that trial include witnesses as democrats have been pushing for? republican senat...

Judgment, for senators on either side of the aisle to prejudge the evidence. >> reporter: senator susan collins of maine criticizing mcconnell's vow to work in "total coordination" with the white house in the president's impeachment trial. revealing she is now "open to witnesses" in the coming proceedings. collins, now the second senator to be critical of mcconnell. she follows alaska republican lisa murkowski, who says she is "disturbed" by his comments. on the other side of the aisle, their own potential flip votes to worry about. senator doug jones, a democrat from deep red alabama, up for ...

The moral courage of our caucus. >> reporter: but pelosi's not ready to take the next step. she's refusing to send the articles of impeachment to the senate until republican leader mitch mcconnell reveals what the trial will look like. mcconnell has said he's working in "total coordination" with the white house. >> our founders, when they wrote the constitution, they suspected that there could be a rogue president. i don't think they suspected that we could have a rogue president and a rogue leader in the senate at the same time. >> reporter: democrats pushing for the delay hope it will give t...

Of justice and abuse of power." with the house set to impeach tomorrow, tonight, the fight over a trial in the senate is well under way. today, senate republican leader mitch mcconnell rejected the democrats' request to call four witnesses the white house has blocked, including acting chief of staff mick mulvaney and former national security adviser john bolton. >> the house chose this road. it's their duty to investigate. if they fail, they fail. >> i listened to the leader's speech. i did not hear a single sentence, a single argument as to why the witnesses i suggested should not give testim...