Previously, an impeachment.

Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye.

All persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment.

While the House of Representatives is exhibiting to the Senate of the United States,

articles of impeachment against Donald John Trump, Senate of the United States articles of impeachment against Donald John

Trump, President of the United States.

The trial of President Donald J. Trump finally got underway.

And I was trying to read Mitch McConnell's expression, and, you know, as usual, there's no expression,

but I just, he doesn't like the house, you know, and how disgusted

he must have been with having a house manager up there in his Senate telling him how he's supposed

to conduct business.

The one question senators couldn't resolve was whether they would call even a single witness.

And I think that what the Democrats are trying to do is say,

this is what witnesses would say, and you're choosing not to hear them.

I can't construct an argument for why you would not,

in a thing that is styled as a trial, want to hear from witnesses.

Okay, so we're five days into the impeachment trial of President Trump.

There's a little break today, Sunday, when we're recording this conversation.

I'm here with Dahlia Lithwick, who is our lead courts and legal reporter, Jeremy Stahl, our senior editor here at Slate. Hi, guys. Hey, Mary. Hi, Mary. Hi, Dahlia. Okay, so Dahlia, before you got here,

I was talking to Jeremy, and he was saying, oh, well, I just watched the last two hours of, you know,

Donald Trump's lawyers making their arguments. I mean, how are you guys

feeling after this much impeachment trial? I mean, the senators themselves in the room weren't able

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