Hello everyone and happy new year. I think some of you have already written this but i wanted to make sure he understood that we have the votes and was the impeachment trial has begun, to pass a resolution essentially the same very similar to the 100 to nothing vote in the clinton trial which sets up as you may recall, what can best be described as may be a phase one. It would include obviously the arguments of the prosecution and arguments from the defense and then, a period of written questions. Because remember, the senders are not allowed to speak during the impeachment trial so basically as written questions submitted to either the prosecution of the defense to the chief justice. At that. , you are the clinton trial, the issue of the appropriateness of calling witnesses was addressed. Now obviously that is the most contentious part of one of these proceedings. And that will be addressed at that time and not before the trial begins. With regard to getting the papers, it is a role o
Country, something i think we have broad, bipartisan agreement on. With regard to impeachment, our understanding is, and i think your understanding is as well, the house is likely to finally send the articles over to us omorrow. And well be able to, we believe if that happens, in all likelihood, go through some preliminary steps here this week which could well include and well be able the chief justice coming over and swearing in members of the nat and some other kind of housekeeping measures. We hope to be able to achieve that by consent. Which would set us up to begin the actual trial next tuesday. So thats sort of the week ahead and the early part of next week as it looks possible as of right now and i think thats likely to hold up. As the leader pointed out, were at long last going to get the articles of impeachment from the house of representatives. I think its safe to say that this is the most rushed, most biased and most partisan impeachment process in history. And of course we
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