have spoken to, that reporters have spoken to across news organizations, this is something that the president did not want to have. he recognizes, he understands what this means for his legacy. what you had today was a white house and also the president's campaign basically coming out there and pubically saying what we have been hearing privately,l and what we've all expected now for weeks, that this president is going to be impeached by the house. they're out there saying they understand that's what's going to happen.mpsa now the focus turns to this senate trial. at the moment the president and other folks at the white house believe they can use this trial to their advantage. you saw the president tweeting today about wanting to bring joe biden to testify, adam schiff to testify, nancy pelosi to testify and really describing this as sort of this made for tv moment, made for court tv moment that this president particularly is drawn to, believing that this could be used as an opportunityl for his allies and the obviously republican controlled senate tov defend him and take down democrats and be able to use this as an argument to voters