respond to that. the senate is a majoritiarian institution. you need a majority of people to get things done. it s not controlled by donald trump or mitch mcconnell. it s controlled by 51 votes. there are not 51 votes to bring the whistle-blower to testify. that s just that doesn t exist. there are not 50 votes to bring any of those people that the president wants to i m sorry that he s not getting his way, but that s not the way the senate works. that s number one. number two, it is not as if the president hasn t had the opportunity to present evidence that would be what nancy pelosi keeps explaining exculpatory. and she likes to explain that that means would show he is not guilty of these issues that intelligence committee has raised. he has had the opportunity to have an opportunity to present those issues. as phil says he is absolutely right. he is a creature of reality
president. any rules that are passed, any guidelines for this trial have to get votes in the senate. this is not a unitary body. this is a majoritiarian institution. and the fact that the president is setting the bar for his base that joe biden and hunter biden are going to be part of this trial should be deeply concerning forld republicans. because it only sets up a construct in which senate republicans are going to be letting down their b base. so i don t understand what the white house strategy is. and,wh frankly, i m not alone because manyly people in the whe house who are not in the communications operation are scratching their heads and wondering what sir going on her. and it s easy to wonder that because it doesn t make any sense whatsoever to promise something t that will not happe inil a politically tenuous situation. so again we are entering a period in which the white house is going to have to be coordinating with republicans on strategy, not leaving them and hanging them ou