down in mar-a-lago could have toll the lawyers if they ask, as senator susan collins and senator murkowski did, if they ask, andersonhe do about it, here are the answers, but they didn't, which to me seems kind of damning. same thing with the mitt romney and bill cassidy wondering well, what about when pence was being threatened and what did trump know about that? again, mar-a-lago could have told van der veen, castor and the others this is what the president did, but they didn't provide that information. again, i don't think this is going to matter because this is going to be a rather partisan vote, but it really was damning in its omission. >> which may be why they didn't choose to give them that information, a, because it is damning and, b, because it doesn't really matter for the republican senators in that are room. we have a legal panel here. elie honig, what did you make of what we just witnessed? >> first of all, i think the house impeachment managers were all about facts. what did donald trump do on january 6th. the what happened on january 6th and trump's lawyers were all about anything else, anything in t