Two people I now expect to be called to testify: Jeff Sessions and Mike Pence. Executive privalege will likely be invoked...so I don't expect them to testify. But they will be asked. Perception is everything.
That is precisely the root of the problem. Perception after a long campaign is what brought Trump to power. Perception after a long media campaign may take his power away.
The perception part of this equation should have ended with the election. What comes next, until the next election, needs to be based on facts. It's not whether Trump is perceived as having cheated to get elected, it's about whether Trump actually cheated to get elected.
If Trump did cheat, and if that can be proven, then he should be removed from office, even though this may cost Democrats dearly in the next election cycle.
If Trump is perceived as having cheated, and this perception brings him down before the next election, then this is an abrogation of his democratic victory at the polls. It makes a mockery of the democratic process.
Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. America's flawed democracy is more important than Trump's flawed presidency.
Democrats claimed Trump was under investigation by the FBI, Trump claimed he had been told by Comey that he was not under investigation. Comey testified that Trump was not under investigation and that he told him so on three occasions.
My perception is that in this instance Trump told the truth and the Democrats were at best "mistaken".
Comey was instructed by his boss not to use the words "under investigation" when referring to the FBI investigation of the Clinton campaign. He complied, but claims he felt "very uneasy" when calling an "investigation" a "matter". If what he testified to is true then he was being pressured, but not from the Trump forces.
How the media spins these apparent facts to Trump's disadvantage is beyond my perception.
Terry