the -- by, you know, the accretion of lawyers because i'm not sure how much work there is for them to do if the trial is going it beto be short and swee mitch mcconnell seems to want it to be and as the democrats want it to be because they want to get their candidates back out on the campaign trail. >> it's interesting, as you said, why hire so many lawyers if the senate is just going to acquit him, anyway? why would you -- >> yeah, there's even talk now about not even going through with much of the process and having a vote right at the beginning to acquit him. >> right. >> but here's -- here's the real question, which is are we going to get at the substance of the issue in the senate? are senators willing to talk about the question of the foreign policy decisions the president made and how they represented an abuse of power? many republican senators are uncomfortable. there's no question. are uncomfortable with the way in which the trump administration conducted the policy toward ukraine. how do we know that? because we know that senator