hook. >>. >> reporter: speaker pelosi -- >> we have these great chairman here who know so much. i'm going to start asking them questions if you. >> even after these hearings, the president said he's completely exonerated. >> please, come on, come on. let me just say this. you give me the opportunity to say this and then i invite my chairmen to close. we want to have the strongest possible case to make a decision as to what path we will go down, and that is not endless in terms of time or endless in terms of the information that we want. but if it comes to a point where the cone of silence and the obstruction of justice and the cover-up in the white house prevents us from getting that information, that will not prevent us from going forward, in fact, it's even more grounds to go forward. my colleagues? >> i just want to the echo that. you know, said something that is in the dna of my brain