more now on the politics lead. the republican reflex is to defend president trump but today his likening of the impeachment inquiry to a lynching. >> that is not the language i would use. it is very clear that what the democrats are doing here does not go across -- does not have due process. it is not fair in the process. it is not something that this house has done ever in the past. >> why wouldn't you use that word? >> i don't agree with that language. it is pretty simple. >> well that is something. lara, let me go to you. what do you think -- president trump declared on twitter that the impeachment inquiry was like a lynching. what was your response when you heard that word. >> i was irate and disgusted and dumbfounded because the president hasn't been castrated or dragged into a square and hung with a noose around his neck and tortured and put oil all over his body and reduce him to being a swine over a roast