Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye.

Hear ye, hear ye.

This is Politico's nerd cast.

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

While the Senate of the United States is sitting for the trial of the articles of impeachment

exhibited by the House of Representatives against Donald John Trump, President of the United States.

All listeners are commanded to keep silent during this

your daily version of the nerd cast,

which we're going to be publishing every day

of the Senate impeachment trial.

It's still going on today.

I'm guessing most people aren't watching every second of the full thing.

So we're taping this about 3.30 p.m. and here's what's happened today so far in 30 seconds.

Mitch McConnell has budged a little bit and given Democrats two more days of trial

allowing the House managers and President Trump's legal team one extra day each

to make their case in the opening arguments.

Pretty much from there, there has been a long debate about the rules and we have seen both sides kind

of offer their full bore opening arguments, even though they are supposed to really just be talking

about the rules.

All right, that was Darren Samuelson,

Politico Senior reporter, our impeachment expert,

and I'm your host Scott Bland.

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