truth yourself. now, let's come become to the issue of delay since the president's lawyers have suggested that having witnesses and documents would make this trial take too long. there will be lengthy court battles they say. the president might even invoke executive privilege for the very first time in this entire impeachment process. it would be better, we're told, to skip straight to the final verdict, to break from centuries of precedent and end this trial without hearing from a single witness, without reviewing a single document that the president ordered hidden. respectfully, that shouldn't happen. house managers aren't interested in delaying these proceedings. we're interested in the full truth, in a trial that is fair to the parties and to the american people in the facts of the president's counsel agrees are so critical to this trial. it's why we've said we won't go to court. we'll follow all the rulings of