political risk. and nancy pelosi knows that. which is why i think she has committed to not opening an impeachment inquiry andic she will prevail in the end. paul: she's trying to protect those swing district democrats in 2020. but what about the pressure from the left? you have a lot of people who are more coming out for impeachment and saying look, it's our duty under the constitution to do this. how does she hold them off as they continue to build this case through hearings that somehow trump did impeachable offenses. >> one way she's been doing that is saying look at how much progress we're making in our investigations and we don't want our investigations to be sidetracked by an impeachment inquiry and also there is i think a new popular narrative among some democrats that we just need to open an inquiry and then see where the mood takes us. and i think that's a particularly risky strategy because all the momentum builds toward actual impeachment. paul: my views is once you