senate democrats are actively courting their republican colleagues to agree to bipartisan, this is all an open question. in terms of a white house role in this there s conflicting reporting and now lots of speculation about what the president and what the white house more broadly might really want from the senate. might they actually want witnesses and documents and a real trial where trump gets to mount his defense? or would they prefer some sort of miniaturized process where mitch mcconnell essentially accepts the articles of impeachment and then makes the whole thing go away with a swift gavel and no discussion? all right, so this is very, very much open. we sort of knew this was going to be an interesting question at the time the house passed the articles of impeachment. we didn t know it would still be a very open question two days after the impeachment. that s for me the very pressing first set of questions that we ve got. we don t know when it ll be resolved. we know it s being
they can hold onto the articles of impeachment as long as they want. there s no time limit on that in the constitution. president trump is impeached and he remains impeached. he basically refused to engage in the senate impeachment process excuse me, in the house impeachment process, and so he hasn t mounted a defense in this process yet. he has said he wants to mount a defense in the senate. if he wants to do so there s going to have to be some sort of trial. senate democrats are affectively cowering their republican colleagues to agree to bipartisan this is all an open question. in terms of a white house role in this there s conflicting reporting and now lots of speculation about what the president and what the white house more broadly might really want from the senate. might they actually want witnesses and documents and a real trial where trump gets to mount his defense? or would they prefer some sort of miniaturized process where mitch mcconnell essentially accepts the article
if he wants to do so there s going to have to be some sort of trial. senate democrats are active ly cowering their republican colleagues to agree to bipartisan this is all an open question. in terms of a white house role in this, there s conflicting reporting and now lots of speculation about what the president and what the white house more broadly might really want from the senate. might they actually want witnesses and documents and a real trial where trump gets to mount his defense? or would they prefer some sort of miniaturized process where mitch mcconnell essentially accepts the articles of impeachment and then makes the whole thing go away with a swift gavel and no discussion? all right, so this is very, very much open. we sort of knew this was going to be an interesting question at the time the house passed the articles of impeachment. we didn t know it would still be a very open question two days after the impeachment. that s for me the very pressing first set of questions t