went to prison for being involved in the hush payments and the obstructions so i guess as you heard one of our guest it say last hour he might be an expert on obstruction but not necessarily in a good way going back to the nixon days. he's now a comentator on cnn, calling for the president's impeachment for months called him richard nixon on steroids and this is not exactly an objective witness to start things off for jerry nadler the democratic chairman of the house judiciary but last hour, we had john sale who was actually a water gate prosecutor and he says nothing is going to come of this. watch. >> if you are going to exercise your legitimate article 1 oversight, you'd go in with an open mind. you don't start off by saying that the president obstructed justice in the days ahead you're going to have the democrats making speeches, and not asking questions. you're going to have the republicans trying to rehabilitate the witnesses without asking questions an we're just going to be going down a road that's going to be a disservice to the public. and the president do you know