i can fire people, he can end criminal investigations. i mean, ultimately that's where their argument is going even if all of this is true, it could not be obstruction of justice. that's why attorney general barr was hired because he wrote this 18-page single spaced memo which said the president cannot be found guilty of obstructing justice because he sits atop the law enforcement machinery like a king. now our colleagues in congress unfortunately are going along with that on the republican side. they're forcing a very zraumt dramatic constitutional confrontation about the powers of congress, the law making branch which has the political sovereignty of the people versus the power of the president and we say he's got one core job which is to take care of the laws that they're faithfully executed not violated. if you trample the rule of law, we've got the power to impeach you, you don't have the power to impeach us. >> congressman, is your committee going to get testimony