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