If you haven’t read our blockbuster story covering the NYT bombshell of a report that we put out this Sunday morning, you might want to go over and read it first, and meet back here. Or, we press on together and tell the story a bit differently.

Trump has just had – unquestionably – the worst two days of his life.

Yesterday, Trump’s last Acting Attorney-General, Jeffery Rosen, the man Trump told to  (Paraphrased) “You sign the letter saying that you found fraud and leave the rest to me and Congress,” that same Jeffery Rosen testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Saturday. Rosen was likely tired because he testified to the DOJ Inspector General on Friday. This is all somewhat a bit embarrassing to DOJ in that a former attorney general (acting or not) was only called to testify to DOJ after the New York Times exposed the story last week, as if Merrick Garland (with whom we are fast losing all patience) had no means to know that this happened prior to the New York Times finding it.

Regardless, this is critical testimony, perhaps the most important testimony. This is a man who was told – by the president himself, to sign a letter saying he found fraud (It didn’t seem to matter that none existed), that alone is a crime. Trump then said, “leave the rest to me and Congress.” Perhaps it is important to note, that single sentence is the only one of which we know because it appeared in Rosen’s aide’s notes on the call. There was surely more said on the call and there were almost surely other calls. And again, this is coming directly from Trump, something that almost never happens. Trump has throwaways like Giuliani or Mark Meadows commit his actual crimes while leaving himself plausible deniability. Not that time.

Dick Durbin is on the Judiciary Committee and under no circumstances was Durbin going to reveal Rosen’s actual testimony. That doesn’t mean that Durbin didn’t reveal some bombshells of his own on CNN’s State of the Union this morning:

“He told us a lot– seven hours of testimony. I might quickly add, this was done on a bipartisan basis, Democratic staff and Republican legal staff asking questions during this period of time. Mr. Rosen appeared voluntarily, which says a lot, and cooperated with us.”

He was not a hostile witness with an attorney sitting next time him guiding answers (We are sure he had an attorney with him, only an idiot would appear without one). He did not answer questions with a “Yes,” or “No,” he wanted to help explain what happened. Perhaps he’s just protecting himself in the long run, and that’s just fine with us.

“The Justice Department had set it up for us and said we’re waiving any privilege. He can speak to any issue –we’re not holding back. I thought he was very open. There’s a lot there, an awful lot there, you can imagine seven hours of testimony.”

There are some of us that could say everything we know about everything in the world, from cheese puffs, to photosynthesis, to basketball, in less than three hours. Seven hours is a lot of testimony. When asked about specifics, Durbin said:

“I can’t get into that at this moment. I can tell you ultimately there will be a report.”

And we find this below nothing short of breathtaking. It is very difficult to hear Durbin describe in the testimony this way and not have it result in taking Trump down:

“Just how directly personally involved the president was, the pressure he was putting on Jeffrey Rosen. It was real, very real, and it was very specific. This president is not subtle when he wants something, the former president is not subtle when he wants something. It’s a good thing for America we had a person like Rosen in that position, who withstood the pressure.”

“Just how personally involved he was…” We don’t want to overstate things but that sounds as close to anything that could put Trump in prison as anything we’ve heard.

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