remember from the '90s who was an early trump supporter because he helped to lead impeachment from the republican side of the house. >> would he make a run for the senate? >> how do you do that if you have lawyers in the white house who were complaining about the president and set up this separate file? so if the white house is doing its damage control, isn't the president, knowing donald trump, going to say, who are these people? >> the whistleblower complaint, read it. it's unproven allegation. but backed up credibly by the release of the memo of the ukraine call. so to the lawyers, if you're introducing, as the judge would say, the witness at least has threshold credibility, let's hear more. and that's why the democrats would go ahead with the investigation. the president just trashes