do with 51 votes. and the reality is that there's two things. number one, he doesn't know -- mcconnell doesn't know they can get 51 votes to make this the political show that trump wants it to be. because there are moderate republicans who would rather hear from serious witnesses like john bolton who had very big problems or did not like what was going on with the pressure campaign in ukraine. they might not want to talk about hunter biden. they'd rather talk about the actual facts. and the problem is democrats could use this to their advantage to demand people from the white house to come in like mick mulvaney. potentially mike pence. so mcconnell's advice to the white house has been let's get this over with. let's sort of have the trial without any witnesses. because if we bring in our people you want, democrats could potentially push for who they want. pushing for people who are