Its also odd to hear the argument that no inquiry should happen simply because the Senate probably would never convict, impeachment hearings would be carried out tobenefit the public and the country, and thus cant turn on projections of the ultimate outcome. ...Just asduring the Nixon years, the first step is congressional investigations (which were seeing now), which then might lead to the opening of impeachment hearings. Those would weigh whether newly gathered facts merit impeachment or not, to inform the public of the momentous stakes and complexities involved in this decision.