>> and phil rucker, it is true, the bold stroke is available to them. we sometimes forget. it is true, congress loves them some time off, especially in the summer. and such a thing would screw up a lot of travel and vacation pla plans. it's probably also true only a tiny percentage of members of congress are looking forward to the kind of town hall meetings they're going to have back in their districts this time around. >> if they have them at all, brian. but look, i think john is right when he says that the momentum is stalled out here. in talking to some democrats tonight there's a feeling that this mueller testimony did not really move the needle and that there's a possibility of course that if mcgahn comes forward and they get through these court battles and democrats sort of build a consensus within that house caucus to try to move toward impeachment something might happen. but it seems much more that democrats if they want to remove president trump from office they're going to have to do it