i hope they can shut out all these distractions. but this lawyer is not covering himself in glory the way he s handling this. the jury has a lot of important work to do here. we ll see if they want to get this done today, if they want they ll have to go out through the holiday weekend or take a break. what s the process there? jurors are human beings and they respond to the same human incentives we do. there is the phenomenon friday verdict. it s the ultimate friday because tomorrow is thanksgiving. the judge said if you don t have a verdict to come back friday. let s focus on right-wing extremist groups like proud boys. what is the consensus on this? it s a good move by the committee. they re subpoenaing the right people behind this. at some point you have to ask what s the end game here? are they really going to get testimony from the oath keepers, the proud boys? are these boys going to show up in congress and testify truthfully? i think that s very doubtful. the committ
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interest in promoting democracy worldwide. if we look hypocritical about this, if we look like we re asking other countries to interfere in our election, if we look like we re asking other countries to engage in criminal investigations of our president s political opponents, then we re not doing our job of promoting our national interest and being that shining city on the hill. professor feldman, anything to add? ultimately the reason that the constitution provided for impeachment was to anticipate a situation like the one that is before you today. the framers were not prophets, but they were very smart people with a very sophisticated understanding of human incentives. they understood a president would be motivated naturally to try to use the tremendous power of office to gain personal advantage to keep himself in office, to corrupt the electoral process and potentially to
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