ing you're just going into stupid land because everything you need to know about it you can determine from just looking at it. You don't need an analogy. If you go to the analogy it's a sign that you don't have an argument.

So we really have to ask what's wrong with our government? I would say our government is failing us on this topic. They're failing us and I think Trump has to take responsibility for that. You know he's the, the buck stops there, right? If Trump does not tell you why the airports are staying open and he also doesn't close them for flights coming in from China, if he doesn't say anything about it he's failing you. He's failing as a president on that topic. Anybody no matter how much you like his other stuff that would be just an absolute grade of F. And that's what I say. That's where he is right now. He's had a grade of F handling this crisis. And by the way only because of lack of communication, right? If he did communicate and he said we're looking at this really carefully and the costs of closing the airports you know all things considered could actually be greater than the risk of this thing but you know we'll close it in a moment if that changes. If he said something like that I'd say all right well at least the smartest people are looking at it. They're watching it. You know maybe they know more than I do. I could be convinced. But the lack of your president saying anything about closing the airports or even why it's still open, complete failure. That is a complete failure of government. You can't fail harder than that really. That's a hundred percent failure. There's nothing you can say about that that makes that less failure. You know I don't know how much you love your president. There's nothing you can say about this that absolves him from not explaining this to the public in a way that we can say yes or no.

I hear the polls say that 75 percent of the public wants to hear from witnesses in the impeachment. And what should you make of that? The politicians, some of them anyway, are trying to say that that's telling the politicians that the public wants this. I don't think that's what's happening. I don't think that's what's happened. I think that the public votes for the best spectacle. There might have been a time in the past when the public would answer a poll based on their self-interest. I just don't know that that's today. I think you know this is something I've suggested before. One of the prediction methods I use is that if you don't know how things are going to go and let's say just to simplify let's say there are two ways the future could go, one of them is boring and one of them would be great headlines and entertaining. It feels to me and this is just anecdotal I have no science to back this whatsoever but it seems to me that we almost always go in the direction of greatest story. In other words if it were a movie one of those stories would be a better script. I feel like we always go in the direction of the better script. What would be better just for entertainment? Not what's good for the country and not what's good for you, not what's good for the parties or the president but what would be the most fun to watch? Witnesses. What would be more fun than watching Hunter Biden, Schiff, Joe Biden, you know Bolton? What would be more entertaining than watching all of them testify? Not much. Not much.

Tell me one TV show or one movie that you immediately say I would rather watch that TV show or that movie than to watch John Bolton testify, to watch Schiff get grilled by the Republicans. I mean seriously we're talking about some super entertaining stuff. Really entertaining. I have mixed feelings because strategically I think the Republicans should let the arguments play out and then before considering witnesses they should have a vote and they should have a vote narrowly on the Dershowitz argument that these things do not rise to the level of an impeachable offense and therefore even if everything, even if more came out about the details it wouldn't make any difference. It wouldn't matter if there's a quid pro quo. It wouldn't matter what the president said. So the most rational way to go here would be for Mitch McConnell to say all right let everybody have their say but then before we decide on witnesses the logical step is to have a vote on whether there's any more information anybody needs. Because if you could have voted it away based on it doesn't reach the constitutional level for impeachment, don't need any witnesses because there'