I have a feeling many of the senators underestimated how nauseating and ultimately demeaning it would be to have to sit in their seats for hours listening to Trump's lawyers talk nonsense intended not for the ears of the Senate jurors but a single crazy person in the White House
I mean really if you're one of 100 U.S. senators and you have to be a wax-doll proxy for a man you don't respect on live television for two weeks or more without any sense of autonomy whatsoever you've got to feel about an inch tall and like your life went off the rails somewhere
By the way "absolute immunity" is so not a thing in our justice system that Philbin may as well be telling a little story to the senators about a cross between a fluffy bunny and a majestic unicorn that he saw in a dream once when he was six years old and still afraid of the dark
