Hello and welcome to another edition of the Byron York show if you've ever

listened to this podcast you know it is the no chit chat podcast and today it is a

particularly good day to dispense with any chit chat because I'm recording this

shortly after the Senate voted to acquit President Trump on two articles of impeachment.

Now that itself is not a surprise. I mean everybody knew the Senate would not muster the 67 votes required to convict the president on

either Article 1 or Article 2, either of which article would have resulted in his

removal from office if they did so, but it was nowhere close to that.

As a matter of fact, there were majority votes to find the president not guilty, 53 votes for count two

count two and 52 votes for count one and we're going to talk about that

discrepancy in just a minute.

But I think the final result in this podcast tells us a lot about a

number of things we've been discussing for months. There was so much discussion, so much speculation about what would go on in this

trial and now it's over and we know that some things did or did not happen. The first thing

is how many times did you hear speculation, I guess it depends

on whether you listen to CNN or MSNBC very much, how many times did you hear speculation

that Republican senators might peel off.

They might decide to turn against the president.

And now we know that with the exception of one vote on one count, that is Senator Mitt Romney voting to convict on count one, with the exception of that,

all senators stuck with their partisan positions. It was an entirely

partisan vote with the exception of one vote from one senator. It's actually different from what happened with

Bill Clinton back in 1999 if you remember back then Democrats voted

unanimously 100% to acquit Bill Clinton on all the charges.

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