yes, it is all but certain they will vote to acquit donald trump. >> douglas herbert.hanks so much as always for your insight. u.s. president joe biden has announced there will be new sanctions against the military regime in myanmar in the wake of a coup there last week. biden said his administration is working to identify the first round of measures this week, and that they would include strong export ctrols. he also did not rule out imposing additional sanctions if the country's military does not standdown. president biden: i again call on the burmese military to immediately release the democratic political leaders and activists they are now detaining including aung san suu kyi. she is -- also the president. the military must relinquish power and demonstrate respect for the rule of the people of burma. as expressed and then november 8 election. so, today, i'm announcing a series of actions that are worth taking to begin imposing consequences on the leaders of the coup. >> meantime, it is the fifth day of protests in myanmar. so far at least two people have been injur

. >> joining us is our international affairs commentator douglas herbert. just a general question.hat exactly have we been watching tonight? doug: we have been watching the pretrial trial. it is exactly what we just heard. a debate over the question of whether putting a former impeached president who is no longer in office on trial is constitutional, is it what the framers of the constitution intended? now, the republicans, they been looking for every tactical advice to avoid having to present the case where they would have to address donald trump conduct an office had on. -- head on. they have been looking towards process. what that means is a nutshell is the constitutionality. by raising the specter of constitutionality it gives those republicans who do not want to convict donald trump in easy opt out without having to risk alienating his base or infuriating his tens of millions of supporters. there is still that basic fear of donald trump. we heard in that quote just before i came on, basically the house peachment prosecutors are making the case, as one of them put it, that this