bill: tom cole said nothing happened. by the end of the day there may be called trial managers assigned to the senate aspect of this proceeding. i was looking back to 1998. i believe there were at leas six on the republican side back then. james sensenbrenner was one of them. he will come up a bit later today here. steve shabiot was on that. congressman barr a republican from georgia. what then are they charged to do when we move to the senate in january? right. the impeachment managers or the trial managers are really presenting the case. they re the prosecutors. and not all the impeachment managers will likely have a speaking role. but they operate as a committee.