remember, we did that thing. we had that has meeting and all those rnussians. it's problematic, because we keep catching them in lies and they keep withholding information. so if you didn't do anything, you should want this to exonerate you and you should believe fully in the process that it will exonerate you. >> why bring this kind of pressure -- exert this kind of pressure on lawmakers, especially when the president is under so much scrutiny already? >> the report in the new york stooi times is that he said to burr, was, let's get this over with. something like that. and roy blunt said it wasn't sinister, it was, let's get this over. i think the president -- and i don't think it's so much that someone said earlier on cnn, i don't think that he doesn't understand how the game is played. i think he wants his presidency to move past this. and i tend to think that he thinks that there's not anything