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He's here. He's here. Now broadcasting from the underground command post. Deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker, somewhere under the brick and steel of a non-distrib building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mike. Love them.

Hello, America. Mark Levin, our numbers 87, 3813, 3811, 877, 3813, 3811.

While everybody in Washington is focused on the United States Senate, supposedly the Constitution, Joe Biden is violating the Constitution left and right, and the Democrats in Congress seek to do exactly the same thing.

And such is the evidence of a declining republic. We have a Roman Senate now, and Caesar, a low IQ Caesar in the White House.

While Rome burns, Neurofiddled.

I want to address a few things here first. Our friend Ted Cruz has posted an op-ed. I assume he wants us to talk about it. It's public. It's on his website.

It's also the Fox News site, and it's one of the rare occasions where I strongly disagree with him, as I will demonstrate now.

He said, the constitutional question of whether a former president can be impeached or tried after his left office is a close legal question.

It's a close legal question.

Really? It's never been done before to a president.

What makes it a close legal question, exactly? Well, let's read on. On balance, I believe that the better constitutional argument is that a former president can be impeached and tried.

That is that the Senate is jurisdiction to hold a trial. Now, let's stop there. Cruz isn't just saying that a former president can be tried. He's saying a former president can be impeached after his left office.

He can be impeached and tried. Apparently, after his left office. He says, however, nothing in the text of the Constitution requires the Senate to choose to exercise jurisdiction. Now we're walking a tightrope.

They're not required to do it, but they can do it.

He goes on in these particular circumstances, I believe the Senate should decline to exercise the jurisdiction. And so I voted to dismiss this impeachment on jurisdictional grounds.

The question wasn't whether or not. This trial violates jurisdictional grounds. Was it Mr. producer? The question was whether it was constitutional or not.

And 44 senators voted that it was not constitutional. The question before the Senate wasn't whether it should be dismissed on jurisdictional grounds.

And it certainly wasn't based on the question of whether it should be dropped on jurisdictional grounds, even though the Senate has the constitutional authority to proceed, although it need not. So that question was never posed to the Senate. Let's move on.

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