He just quit there at the end of that Motion he knew he was going to lose. You could see his brain tell his jib to "F it."
That's the first time he's looked BORED, and I knew it was coming, I just didn't think it would be halfway through the first day.
We got this c********* right where we want him.
The Turtle has played this timetable brilliantly, adhering to his team's advice to make the trial days intolerably LONG.
He went for the impossible (post-midnight deliberations) and then appeared magnanimous to settle today for what still will be innumerably LONG days just like this one!
There are young Senators who will freak out and vote whatever just to move the damn thing along to dismissal. It's a hella strategy, it's brinksmanship, but it's already working.