On into the night

Jeffries has receipts of Trump saying just last month that "I would love to have Mike Pompeo, I would love to have Mick, I would love to have Rick Perry and many other people testify" during the Senate trial. pic.twitter.com/v39UNMdqAn

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 22, 2020

I have to add that I've missed Hakeem Jeffries' argument, and it is my loss.

owning the cons with John Quincy Adams pic.twitter.com/3HfwfsyYP4

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 22, 2020

So. Many. White. Dudes. pic.twitter.com/bTIetM8NnP

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 22, 2020

I don't care how the Senate votes anymore:

Republicans are really going to just keep voting as a block to kill this whole thing, aren't they? https://t.co/vRvWtpwSoG

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 22, 2020

The whole trial is a foregone conclusion. What I care about is how this changes the "conventional wisdom" of the media. Before this trial started NPR reporters were chatting about how the Democrats had failed by not chasing down court cases to the bitter end, giving Republicans what seemed to be strong grounds for Trump's argument he was being treated unfairly and shouldn't be removed from office for failing to fully cooperate with Congress. Before the first hour was up that argument was shredded and thrown on the fire by House Managers. By now the conversation will be about how well the House has made its case, and how poorly the President's lawyers have defended him.

Eight hours in and the White House lawyers are still relying on nakedly political arguments and attacking Democrats instead of in any way defending Trump's conduct pic.twitter.com/nBhxxEnTXe

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 22, 2020

8 hours of "same song second verse/a little bit louder a little bit worse" is going to try the patience and attention span of the most devoted "both sides" journalist.

This is going as well as possible for the Democrats and the House Managers.  They won't win; but the country will know how strong their case is.  Alan Dershowitz' little speech about the constitutionality of the articles is going to be a fart in a hurricane, at this point.