process. might not necessarily deserve that. howard: "the washington post" has a report growing number of republicans are ready to acknowledge that, yes, donald trump used military aid as leverage to get an investigation going of the bidens in the ukraine, but it's not an impeachable offense, it doesn't rise to that level. nothing happened in the end. if they do acknowledge that and the stories reporting this are not fake. >> well, they have -- senators have been telling me now for weeks that they don't like what the president did on the call, but that doesn't rise to an impeachable offense. that's not changed -- howard: on the record? >> oh, yeah. no, no, they've been telling us that in the hallways. i think the story is really about the words quid pro quo, because they want to be able to check the president who has gone out and said there's no quid pro quo but now, oh, wow, we've got the republican senate. they've always said we don't really support what he did on the phone. we don't think that's an impeachable offense. i don't think that's changed. howard: i think that's a fair a