Republicans Want To End The Impeachment Trial Tomorrow

Republicans in the Senate are hoping that they can bring the entire impeachment of Donald Trump to a close on Friday, ending this chapter of the Presidency and moving forward. They can only accomplish this by voting to not allow new witnesses or documents, and Republicans now believe that they have secured the votes to stop the case from proceeding. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what could happen on Friday IF the Republicans shut it all down.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

The last 36 hours with regards to the impeachment trial of Donald Trump have been insane, and that's really putting in mildly. After all, about 36 hours ago, we had Mitch McConnell telling us that he didn't think he had the votes. He thought Democrats had enough votes to call for witnesses to possibly even call for new documents and evidence. Oh, woe is me, the Democrats may have won this thing. And now here we are little under 36 hours later and Lindsey Graham is telling us, oh no, we got the votes back. Yeah, we've secured it. We're confident now. We're pretty certain that this entire thing might be nothing but history by Friday. Republican Senator John Barrasso, told reporters last night, that the aim of the Republicans in the Senate is to vote down witnesses on Friday, then immediately call for a vote on whether or not to convict or acquit. And if that happens and they vote to acquit after they vote to not take any witnesses, that's it. The whole thing's over. It's history. And that could happen by this time tomorrow. By this time tomorrow, it could have already happened and it's over. The impeachment is done with.

So then what? Because at that point, supposing acquittal happens tomorrow, we're a little over nine months away from the general election. Nine months, nine months is an eternity in the political world. It hasn't even been nine months since the Mueller report dropped, folks. And think about how few people remember what was in that. And I know people get angry when I say this, like, oh, you ought to have a little more faith in the American public. I don't because I've been doing this for 15 years and I've been watching them every day. I have no faith in the American public. Nine months from now they're going to forget about nearly all of this. Oh, they'll remember there was some kind of Ukraine thing, but wasn't the president acquitted for that? Yeah, but the Republicans were. Yeah, but I mean the Democrats didn't, it's going to get muddied because Republicans, if they acquit tomorrow, if they acquit next week or even the week after, what's going to happen is that every single one of them is going to be doing victory laps around this country for the next nine months and in those victory laps, they're not going to mention how they obstructed everything.

They're not going to mention how they rigged everything. They're not gonna mention how they didn't comply with subpoenas in the House impeachment investigation. They're just going to talk about the fact the Democrats had nothing. We won. It was a witch hunt. It was a hoax and Trump was acquitted. How can you explain that? If they had something on him, he wouldn't have been acquitted. We would have voted to convict him, but we didn't. So they must not have had anything.

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