[laughter] coming up, julie norman joins in. tom: they play jethro tull like nobody else.onathan: was that the 1950's, tom? tom: a little later than that. boulder, colorado. jonathan: with futures negative, this is bloomberg. ♪ ritika: with the first word news, i'm ritika gupta. there's never been a day like this in the senate. donald trump faces an unprecedented second impeachment trial beginning today. it will start with a debate on whether the proceeding is constitutional. tomorrow, house impeachment managers and trump's defense team will each get up to 16 hours of presentations. the former president is virtually assured of an acquittal. it would get a 2/3 majority to get a conviction. the ceo of eli lilly has resigned over allegations of an inappropriate personal relationship. lilly says his conduct was not related to any business matters. in myanmar, police fired rubber bullets, tear gas, and water cannons at demonstrators throughout the country today. demonstrators were defying a ban on public gatherings. myanmar's military leader has repeated claims that last novemb

. >>> let's bring in ross garber who teaches impeachment law at tulane and julie norman lecturer in politicst university college london. thank you both for being with us. ross, let me start with you. i want to begin with minority leader mcconnell. he votes to acquit because he says that a former president cannot or should not be impeached, but when president trump was in office he declined to start the trial then. speaker pelosi calls that justification pathetic. what's your assessment? >> well, you know, mcconnell clearly wanted nothing at all to do with this. this was, you know, not something he wanted dumped in his lap and, you know, he in some ways was trying to have it all ways, in some ways he wound up having it no ways. you know, it's unclear what he actually believed, but the notion in the end was that, you know, jurisdiction was a way for him to avoid having to deal with many of the facts of the case, but notably he did go out of his way to condemn trump's conduct. >> let's play some of that. >> former aides publicly begged him to do so, loyal allies frantically called the administr