This is the Mother Jones Podcast. I'm Jamila King in New York.

On today's show, on today's show, this is your Captain Jamila speaking.

We're beginning our final descent.

We're bringing this impeachment plane into land any day now.

But sorry to say, we're going to be circling this airport

for a bit longer. Visibility low and there's going to be a few bumps and

turbulence and surprises during this final descent.

We don't know.

We just don't know.

Things are pretty much, I think the technical term is up in the air.

So buckle up, tray table secure. We're bringing you the latest on this final approach to

Trump's acquittal or not.

Stick around. The Democrats gave their side.

And you know that what he did was not right.

If you find him guilty, you must find that he should be removed.

The Republicans have now wrapped their defense.

The Senate's fair process will draw a sharp contrast with the unfair and precedent-breaking inquiry that was carried on by the House of Representatives.

And at play right now in this final impeachment phase,

will Mitch McConnell's Republican majority hold tight?

Or will there be enough breakaway senators to squeak, and I mean squeak, over the line to hear more evidence that could damage the president?

Maybe even from the book writing former national security

advisor John Bolton. Now it's all up to the Senate when we don't know. To break down what this all means,

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