>> again, this is a russian talking point. a debunked conspiracy theory. are you surprised to hear this coming from ted cruz considering he was the target of conspiracy theorys when he was running against president trump? >> i think at this point, so few people are tuning into the details of what's happeneded. i think the time for that was in october. we're months past it at this point. we've seen other republican senators use this, senator kennedy then sort of backtracked then went back to it. i think republicans have yet to center on an exact message of how to defend the president. if you remember initially, it was well the conduct was bad but not impeachable. they've really moved on from that message, but i don't think they've settled on a single message yet and inn you're seeing that on the sunday shows, whether it's senator cruz or many of the other republicans, aren't really cohesive in what they're say, but the trut is it hasn't mattered. the republican support is splid