to jeremy's point, does tom nichols have a point? >> if you'd inserted the name barack obama for donald trump in that questioning, there's no doubt that impeachment proceedings would have commenced immediately at the conclusion of those answers. it remains an incomprehensible feature of this presidency that there is nothing that trump can do that will seemingly dissuade his followers from going there. the notion that the republican party is willing to turn a blind eye to complicity if not conspiracy in russian activity designed to attack our election is really i think one of the mysteries that historians and political scientists will look back on for this couple of years. and just wonder and parse how it could have ever happened so quickly. >> hey, jeremy bash, just one more thing before we have to hit a break. if anyone wants drama or a bold stroke, you know, the speaker