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Protect yourself at ExpressVPN.com slash Ben. All righty. So we have reached the big day.

Today might be the day when finally this whole impeachment thing that started all the way back in October and now is carried forward all the way to the beginning of February. It may be over today.

The reason it may be over today is because it appears that the

Republicans have the witnesses that have the votes to prevent further witnesses from testifying.

I say further witnesses because all of the witness testimony from the House was in fact

admitted as evidence in the Senate impeachment trial. So what you keep hearing from the media,

which is that there were no witnesses, not technically true. There were witnesses. And many of the witnesses that were, quote, unquote, called during the Clinton impeachment, it was the same thing. They were actually interviewed by the DOJ or by the House. And then those transcripts were admitted via video or via transcript to the Senate impeachment trial. So the idea there have been no witnesses is obviously not true. The question is, why are there no further witnesses?

And that question, of course, was exacerbated by that supposed bombshell that John Bolton dropped

in which he suggested that the president was pretty explicitly making clear that he wanted

to withhold Ukrainian aid in exchange for particular investigations from the Ukrainian government

targeting events back in 2016 and Joe Biden

and Hunter Biden and Crowdstrike and all the rest of it. So there was a big question coming up to

Friday, coming up to today, as to whether Republicans were going to vote to admit additional

witnesses. And as of this hour, effectively, there are a few different options, right? The Senate is

supposed to convene about 1 p.m. today, East Coast time. So that means that there are a few different options that are

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