Here’s how it’s looking at the moment to those following it closely: The Democrats know they are losing Chafee. There are 10 Republicans on the committee. As of now, Bolton has 9 3/4 of them. Democrats clearly wanted Bolton to lose his composure yesterday, but he never did. There will probably be only one witness against Bolton today, Carl Ford who has already testified about the Cuba BW flap previously and in a way that was basically exculpatory. The fishing around that the Democrats have done for other witnesses apparently hasn’t panned out. Republicans will try to avoid making a big deal of Ford one way or the other, hoping to get it over with quickly. Then it just becomes a question of whether Lugar keeps Biden to his commitment to vote on the nomination today. Democrats will want to delay a vote so they can keep looking for negative information. Lugar shouldn’t let them.