"In the grip of fear, the president's comments and actions these past few days mortally betray any naive intent he may have had of fulfilling the duties of the President of the United states, and must be impeached, preferably by his own party."

If the Republicans want to salvage anything of what their party once was and stood for the Senate Republicans should grab the ball and move to impeach here fairly soon. I think this would happen once we are in the new year. They will wait until the new Democratic House is seated.

It remains to be seen though if they will do this.

Basically, everybody in Washington is now openly talking about impeachment, Republicans and Democrats, and as more and more comes out about guys like Manafort and Corsi pretending to cooperate while feeding info back to Trump in hopes of landing pardons comes out...well...you would have to be blind and deaf not to see how guilty Trump and these guys are.

This is really ugly.

So, now we know that Team Trump was collecting information from Manafort and Corsi to use to help Trump answer Mueller's questions.

We also will likely have confirmed shortly if Manafort went to meet with Julian Assange as he was accepting the invitation to join the Trump campaign. It sure appears that he did, which will be really ugly for Trump.

Team Trump has now ceased saying the campaign did not collude with Russia and now phrases it as Trump himself did not collude with Russia...again not a good sign for Trump and certainly bad for anybody that was part of his campaign.

Manafort has apparently made the decision to die in jail, as his only hope of that not happening is if Trump pardons him. Manafort's attorney is now also likely to be brought up on charges and end up disbarred.