He’s just making the Dems think twice about witnesses.
Dems don’t want witnesses. They don’t have a case, and won’t have a case with more witnesses. They just want to claim the trial was a sham because they didn’t get [fill in the blank].
Yep - and also letting the know that if the dems get to call any witnesses, the Repubs do too - and there ain’t gonna be a quid pro quo swap deal...the dems don’t get to nix like they did with the House crap-shoot (the non-dice crap)