Too bad.

Well well well.

The worm turns.

Unfortunately, probably not far enough.

Well, thank God impeachment itself isn't hanging in the balance.

Even if the Senate votes him a free pass, that Will NOT Change The FACT That He Was, and Is IMPEACHED.

The impeachment will stick. As Nancy Pelosi said, "Impeachment is Forever." "He is impeached FOREVER."

OUCH is right!

I would hope that would spur the prickly Bolton to want to talk even more.

Especially if he wants to clear any doubt that he's got a new book full of classified information he's supposedly spilling the beans about.

Nicolle Wallace made a very good point about this. John Bolton has written SIX books. All vetted and pronounced clean and clear for publishing. She said Bolton knows better than to blab classified info when he's writing a book. Besides, as the old saying points out: "this ain't his first rodeo."

Unless he talks in his sleep. Probably lies there, too.

Maybe mumbles out the name of some former (or present) backstage girl - which would help explain why Melania doesn't live in the White House as has been reported.

Whoever thought she might be an interesting hire at MSNBC is a GENUINE GENIUS!!!

What a great find she is! She is WICKED-good!

ALMOST makes me glad she isn't a Senator anymore. ALMOST.

But the bonus here, even after losing her reelection bid, is - just look at the forum she has now. She's no longer one-of-100. She has a single all-to-herself media platform that's much higher-profile and more influential among the public. Those soundbites from TV last forever. In the Senate, you can be as shrewd and vicious and blood-thirsty in the Senate as you can get away with, but if it's not covered on TV, and either nobody was there or heard about it or was recording it, or even knew to check C-SPAN, it's basically as though it didn't happen.

Now, she's a pundit who's on, A LOT, commenting and fact-checking and using her sense of humor and irony to skewer her targets with a VERY sharp and pointy verbal knife. And she has FABULOUS insider perspective.

To whit: earlier this morning when I was paying attention and taking notes in real time, she pointed out that John Bolton's PAC gave ten-thousand-dollar donations to Senators Thom Tillis, Tom Cotton, and Cory Gardner. And she wondered aloud about their objectivity if it came to obeying trump and voting against Bolton (and others) being brought in to testify as a fact-witness.

Her observation almost literally air-horned former RNC Chair/now pundit-in-his-own-right Michael Steele. He sat back in his chair and chuckled loudly with a big grin !!- "ah, Claire, you devil, you!"

SCORE!

And yes, she's OUR "devil"! And thank Heaven for that!

Aha! I think you're right. "pretend lawyer Alan Dershowitz."

Thanks, GreatCaesarsGhost!

There are other guesstimates in this thread, though, and they're all good. And they all fit.

Around our house it's also "Alan Jeffrey-Epstein Dershowitz," and "Alan Claus-Von-Bulow Dershowitz" and "Alan OJ Dershowitz." As in "...the company you keep."

Welcome to DU, MoonlitKnight.

Indeed. I hope they keep it up. I wish I were there, too.

Frankly, when is the trump admin NOT lying?