re: Too many people have too much to lose if this proceeds to a formal trial in the senate

It could be something else. Maybe Pelosi wants to continue sitting on that footage. There's always other things that could pop up.

What if Schiff didn't want the bungalow "incident" getting out, so he called his friend the GM of the Standard Hotel (it and Chateau Marmont are owned by the same dude, after all) and he enlisted her help in cleaning up the mess.

No, that can't be right... She's no threat to rat out Schiff. She and a few hotel colleagues died in a helicopter crash, a few weeks later.