president trump would be perpetually impeached, never having the chance to get an acquittal and of course, that s not what she meant. because a day later, what she said was all she was saying was that she wasn t going to send her army into battle unless she knew what the battlefield looked like. so she wasn t going to name the house managering until she knew the full scope of the senate trial. which sounds logical. but i think as these days turn to weeks, certainly i think you will see some pressure mount on democrats to do what they need to do to tee up this trial. she cannot hold back these articles of impeachment forever and ever. we re looking at the calendar and now we have a state of the union date, february 4th. could that be the kind of thing that forces one party s hand or the other? this is somehow still an open question come early february? yes, i think the thing that might be the arbiter, the outside arbiter to awful this may n, to all of this is not the state of the un