Discussion on potential impeachment and election impacts (Part 3)

Election. Well, as the war and the Iran war is what everybody's pointing to. Yeah. And so, you know, he's gonna bring these back up. You're going to have Democrats probably, you know, party line, vote to impeach Hagseth. You're going to have Republicans, some who had problems with him, you know, chattering before, they might do that as well. Number two, people who now say, oh, we have to build distance between ourselves and the president or they just don't like Hagseth or they want to blame somebody. So you might have Republicans joining in. You can have a number that aren't here. Right. I mean, if you win an election, you don't always show up to a lame duck session. I think there's a lot of Republicans who didn't see this coming and they might not. We don't know what their headspace is like and they might not show up. And so then you send this to the Senate. Well, the Senate has to at least process this. You don't have to hold a full trial, but in order to dismiss it, you have to at least have 51 votes to vote for that. Well, if that happens in this Congress, it happens with John Cornyn of Texas still in office. It happens with Bill Cassidy of Louisiana still in office. It happens with Thom Tillis of North Carolina still in office. So could we have a Senate trial this year under a Republican Senate now it takes 67 to convict and remove. And here's another interesting footnote, Jared, that unlike legislation, that if you pass something in one Congress and then you still haven't moved it, say you passed it in the House and haven't moved it through the Senate, it dies at the end of the Congress. You have to pass it again, start again, impeachment articles carry over to the new Congress. We saw this in late 1998 when the House impeached President Clinton. And then you can send that over to the Senate in January of 1999. New Senate, a new Congress. They held the impeachment trial. If it falls to a Democratic Senate, I don't know how this works. Are they going to say, ah, we really don't want to do with this because we got to deal with affordability and health care and tariffs. Or do they say, yes, this was the message of the election, that they got us into this, this war in Iran and he's partly responsible and we're not going to impeach and try to throw out the president, but we are going to do that to Pete Hegseth. We don't know yet how that would work. And that's what's fascinating, too, about this election, is the impact it has on the existing lame ducks. So I know it's going to pick up for you. The lull is over in the halls of Congress, I imagine, Chad, also, I mean, they still have to fund the government and pass a defense policy bill. Right. And don't forget that they want to put strings on those bills about the war in Iran now, because they're going to say, Democrats are going to say, you know, we're not going to do.