According to CNN's Douglas Brinkley, we can kiss American democracy goodbye if Senate Democrats don't get their way with the Trump impeachment trial. That was the message he delivered Thursday afternoon to his co-hosts Wolf Blitzer and Jake Tapper, stating that presidents will now act as "an outlaw" with "imperial precedent" and "democracy" will be "broken" if Senate Democrats aren't able to take over the trial with a slew of witnesses, but then remove Trump from office. He added, "I'm afraid if no witnesses come forward after what we've heard about what transpired in the Ukraine and stalking of an ambassador, and none of this gets heard, I feel it's going to make a lot of people think our democracy is broken and that the American presidency, the executive branch is trying to run shotgun over both the judicial branch and certainly over the legislative branch."