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Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Monday February 3rd 2020. I am John

Pudhord. It's the editor of commentary the 70 out-year-old monthly of intellectual analysis political

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mailbox 11 times a year with me as always senior editor aid greenwald hi aide. Hi John associate

editor no Rothman high noah hi John and in Washington senior writer Christine Rosen high

Christine hi John so there are going to be no witnesses today begins the wrap up of the impeachment

trial and apparently Wednesday following the Iowa caucuses and the state of the union address

the Senate will acquit Donald John Trump and we will never hear the words Donald John Trump

spoke and ever again in that order since that seemed to be how you needed to refer to

to the president of the United States if officially in all proceedings involving his impeachment

because there might be another Donald Trump and you really need that middle name to make sure

you're specifically meant to talking about the president himself. So we've gone over this and

over and over and over. So the I have to say that my own view of impeachment was reflected so

precisely by the by the either notorious or salubrious uh senator Lamar Alexander's 15 tweet

tweet storm in which he explained why it was that he would not be voting for witnesses

um that uh I'm not even sure I have anything more to add I mean basically what he said was we

don't need more witnesses to know that Donald Trump did something in relation to Ukraine and his

political prospects and the Biden's that was inappropriate I stipulate that it was inappropriate I

also think that it does not rise the level of having him removed from office particularly in an

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