The Road to Impeachment: As the full House prepares to formally impeach President Trump this week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says he wants to hear testimony from Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, former National Security Adviser John Bolton and subpoena documents the White House has refused to hand over.

  Schumer says in a letter to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that, “I trust Senate Republicans agree that this trial must be one that is fair, that considers all of the relevant facts, and that exercises the Senate ‘s Power of Impeachment under the Constitution with integrity and dignity. The trial must be one that not only hears all of the evidence and adjudicates the case fairly; it must also pass the fairness test with the American people.”

  McConnell, who in effect is the jury foreman, has said he is working with the President and his lawyers on the defense. McConnell has the power to run a trial in which no one testifies against the President. The always colorful Republican Sen. Lindsay Graham said, “I think this whole thing is a crock.”

  Public opinion has remained largely unmoved and is likely to remain so if there’s a trial with no testimony. According to the Real Clear Politics average of polls, 46.7 percent of Americans want Trump convicted and removed from office.

Bombshell: The movie “Bombshell” opened over the weekend, once again peeling the lid off the sex and sexual harassment scandal at Fox News under the late predator boss Roger Aisles. The movie is about how three of the network’s female anchors took down the sexually obsessed Aisles and helped spawn the #MeToo movement.

  Former anchor Gretchen Carlson, who settled out of court for her treatment by Aisles, wrote in The NY Times that the terms of her agreement prevent her from talking about what happened to her. “‘Winning’ my complaint with a settlement and a nondisclosure agreement meant I was, essentially, forced into silence,” she wrote. 

  Not so with CNN’s Alisyn Camerota, a Fox veteran, who writes in Vanity Fair about her encounters with the lecherous Aisles. In their first meeting to talk about making her an anchor he said, “I like this little number you’re wearing.” He then asked her  to “Give me a spin. Let me look at you.”

  Camerota writes that “‘Listen,’ he said, his eyes softening, ‘we’ve got research showing ratings go up two-tenths of a point for every two inches higher the skirt. If there’s one thing I know, it’s how to program TV.’” 

  She writes that, “The next time I asked for a shot on the anchor desk, Roger replied that we’d have to get to know each other better, to work more closely together, one-on-one. In order to do that, and to avoid arousing jealousy among other anchors, it might be best to meet somewhere off-site, like, say, a hotel. ‘Do you know what I’m saying?’ he asked. ‘Yes,’ I answered. ‘I think I do know what you’re saying.’”

  She didn’t go to the hotel with Aisles.  She went to CNN without him.

The Bulletin Board: New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, a moderate Democrat who is fiercely opposed to impeaching President Trump, has said he is plans to switch parties and become a Republican. His staff resigned. — Thomas Callaway, a 43-year-old Georgia youth minister, was charged with sexual battery for slapping a woman television reporter on the rear live on the air as he ran past her in a 10K race. — The Naval Academy and West Point are investigating  cadets and midshipmen who flashed white power hand signals from the stands at the Army-Navy football game. — Responding to objections by conservative groups, the Hallmark Channel has pulled a commercial featuring two women kissing at the end of a same-sex wedding ceremony. Facing an uproar, Hallmark has since apologized and said it will restore the ads to air.

The Obit Page: Felix Rohatyn, the financier who steered New York city out of bankruptcy in the 1970s, has died at age 91 in Manhattan.

  Rohatyn was a refugee from Nazi-occupied France who came to the US and became a major Wall Street power broker. He left his mark on the mergers and acquisitions of  Avis, Lockheed Martin, Warner Bros., General Electric and others. 

  New York went broke and President Gerald Ford refused to help, inspiring the famous Daily Newsheadline: FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD. Rohatyn was summoned to head the Municipal Assistance Corp., governing the city’s finances from 1975 to 1993. “I get called when something is broken,” he once told The Associated Press. “I’m supposed to operate, fix it up and leave as little blood on the floor as possible.”

End Zone: The New York Giants beat Miami 36-20 yesterday in what may have been the last home stadium start for quarterback Eli Manning, who has run the Giants offense for most of  the past 16 years and won the Super Bowl twice.

  The win broke a nine-game winning streak for the Giants. The 38-year-old Manning was benched in September but brought back on the field for a dignified exit.

In Deep: Scientists from the University of California Irvine have discovered what they believe is the deepest point of land on earth. They found an area under the Denman Glacier in East Antarctica that is about 2 miles below sea level filled with ice. The trough measures about 60 miles long and 12 miles wide.

Sex Education: Just in time for the middle school science project, thousands of sea worms otherwise known as “penis fish” washed up on a California beach and that is exactly what they look like. 

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