Hey Rubicon listeners, it's Brian.

Before we get started this week, I wanted to share the exciting news that I'll be writing a new weekly newsletter here at crooked media.

It's called Big Tent. It'll be all about the latest developments in the 2020 campaign,

how important they are, and whether they'll change

what's at stake in this election.

The first edition comes out next Friday, January 31st, but you can subscribe today at crooked.com

slash big tent.

I'm really psyched about this so I hope you

sign up and encourage people you know to sign up too.

We're making it hard for you. We're making it hard for you to say no. We're making it hard for you to say no.

We're making it hard for you to say I don't want to hear from these people I don't want to see these

documents. We're making it hard. It's not our job to make it easy for you.

The President is on trial on the Senate, but the Senate is on trial in the eyes of the American people.

So far, I'm sad to say, I see a lot of senators voting for a cover-up.

If we don't stand up to this peril today, we will write the history of our decline with our own hand.

The impeachment trial of Donald Trump has finally begun, or has it, in the most consequential sense, what you've read is true. The trial of Donald

Trump is underway. There's only one Senate proceeding that will end in Donald Trump's

acquittal or conviction, and this is it.

What I mean though is, should what we're witnessing in the Senate really be called a trial?

And the answer is, we don't really know yet.

In the wee hours of Wednesday morning on a purely party line basis, the Senate passed

Mitch McConnell's resolution establishing the rules for this so-called trial.

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