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Now today is supposed to be the start of the opening arguments in this so-called impeachment trial.

Never mind the Democrats could not wait. They turned a debate that was supposed to be about

whether to call witnesses before or after opening arguments into their opening argument.

They did the opening argument yesterday as part of the... It's so obvious what this is, folks.

And I think the reason they did it is because they realized that after the first day the

public is going to lose interest in this and very few people. It's going to be a declining

audience rating as it was for all of the other impeachment proceedings. The Democrats were in

charge of. And so they wanted to get as much out there as they could. It's clear this is a 2020

campaign issue. And I just saw Andy McCarthy on TV and he made a point that what happened in 10

or 11 hours yesterday in the Senate. In a normal courtroom nobody would have ever seen.

It would have happened in maybe two to three hours as the lawyers from both sides submit motions

to the court. The court rules. There is no public debate about it. The court makes the decision.

That's the last word on it. But this is a televised fiasco and it's a spectacle. And so

we had 10 or 11 hours where the Democrats... I think we also now know why the Democrats in part

delayed presenting the articles of impeachment. And that was so that they could prepare all of the

graphics and all of the video highlights and taking Trump totally out of contact. It is painful

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