and perhaps just not having witnesses. >> do you have any conventional wisdom, josh, is it out there on which approach is better for the democrats or the white house? >> i think mcconnell has actually shifted on this issue a little bit. remember, a short time ago, he was talking about how painful this was going to be for democrats who were running for president for the folks out on the campaign trail like senator elizabeth warren, senator klobuchar, senator booker and so forth, that they said be tiwoul up for week and weeks for some kind of trial for president trump and now it sounds like that was something of a bluff. i think what you have is a few moderate republicans who are basically, you know, stemming the discussion of an extended trial and are basically insisting that you won't have witnesses that could really take this in a very strange direction like for example calling hunter biden. so you have that small group.