have a change in the white house? >> tragically, it appears that we've lost the tools that we might if otherwise have had. and we've given them up more or less this week. first of all, when the nat democrats chose to nuke the senate's impeachment power for the first time in history where we've had jurisdiction over articles of impeachment, duly passed by the house of representatives, we didn't undertake a trial the. we didn't cull my fate in a a finding of guilty -- culminate in a finding of guilty or not guilty. first time in american history where that has happened where we had full jurisdiction as we did here. maria: right. >> and, by the way, in the process of doing that, they also she set a new precedent that,s apparently, lying to congress knowingly, intentionally, isn't impeachable. that's really odd. secondly, we relinquished what bargaining power we had left insofar as the senate passes on tuesday what the house passed last night. we will have relinquished what