strategy heading into the hearings, we re joined by a p t political science lecturer in london. thank you for coming on. good morning, natalie. the republicans are spinning this to keep the focus on the bidens and corruption and a away from donald trump. is that going to work? i think the problem for republicans is that there doesn t appear to be any evidentiary basis to contradict the fact pattern. so they are left with no other options. they might say either trump s actions didn t rise to an impeachable offense or that the intent to commit a crime wasn t there or the white house policy with ukraine is so incoherent that no one can really make sense of it. i don t think that any of those justifications, unfortunately for the republicans, seem convin convincing. sgl the republicansen b issued a witness list to the democrats. they would like to see hunter biden and the whistleblower probably very slim that