OK, smart people at DU - what are your thoughts on how this will all play out? I am at a loss..

[tavalon]

39. Check out the Watergate Wiki

That will give you a broad stroke idea of what is going to happen. There will be a Special Prosecutor, someone who is without reproach and acceptable to both parties. After an exhaustive investigation, it will be presented to the House, where Articles of Impeachment will be drafted. Then, it moves to the prosecutorial phase, in the Senate.

Now, during the pre-impeachment stage, many people will turn State's evidence to save their own asses. A number of people, unfortunately, will be given immunity for testifying (Michael Flynn, probably is one), but those don't go to everyone, and Trump will not be the only person taken down. My personal hope is that he is taken down first and Pence ascends to the Presidency, and appoints ? as VP, hopefully someone moderate, then Pence gets taken down (he is dirty, if only by not telling in an appropriate amount of time) and that President ascends and so on.

I prefer that to simultaneous impeachments of both President and VP - third in line of succession is Paul Ryan. Of course, there is a possibility that Ryan will be shown to be complicit, in which case, I'm all for the trifecta. And, there is the danger that if Pence doesn't get impeached simultaneously with Trump, he could pull a Gerald Ford. I so do not want to see that little piece of history repeated!

Before yesterday, I was where you are. And really stressed. But I see the path now. It isn't if, it is when. And we are back on solid Constitutional ground, a place we haven't been for a while, so as a patriot, I feel so relieved. I know this gig.

"What did you know and when did you know it?" just came back into vogue. And I, for one, couldn't be happier.

I will sleep better tonight than I have in 6 months.