a. You can't trade taxpayer aid for help on your re-election campaign. You just can't.
b. Here's my daily behind-the-scenes of Thursday's impeachment trial.
b. Here's my daily behind-the-scenes of Thursday's impeachment trial.
2/ A reporter from the Boston Globe (Go Sox!) called me this morning to talk about how novel these behind-the-scenes threads are. She filed this story (in which I learned that I've gained 30,000 followers since the beginning of the trial!) bostonglobe.com/2020/01/30/nat…
3/ Huh - no Dershowitz at the President's counsel's table. My fingers are crossed they banned him after the crazy dangerous argument he made last night about a president's immunity if he abuses his power to secure his reelection.
4/ The second question of the day is from Rand Paul, and Roberts rejects it. I notice that he reads Paul's question first to himself (something he never does), so maybe he got tipped off that Paul's question was way out of line?
5/ Let me just note, for all of you who still remember we have a Democratic presidential primary in four days, that all the Dem Senators who are running are getting along swimmingly. Lots of chatter between Amy, Elizabeth, Bernie and Michael during the breaks in action.
6/ Manchin has chocolate milk! This is a big deal, because it suggests that the rules might allow things to be added to milk. I tell Manchin he should be really careful about the precedent he just set because there's a lot more powerful additives available than chocolate sauce.
7/ I gave my first question of the away to a Senator who hadn't asked a good one yet, and then by the time I wrote a new one I liked (on the importance of Bolton's testimony), the clock had run out (I was the next question up at adjournment). But here it is in case you care: 
