you're now using impeachment as a partisan political tool. i keep telling my friends on the left, let's say joe biden wins the election next year but republicans take back the house. do we really want an environment where the first thing they do is launch articles of impeachment? paul: now, you know, you i covered the board hearings way back when so these supreme court fights have been horrible for a long time. >> oh, yeah, they're nasty. paul: how much of this he predates trump? i remember a lot of democrats saying george w. bush wasn't legitimate because of the al gore fights and how much of this is actually unique to trump? >> well, i think you have to say some of it's unique to trump. obviously we've always had physician afisticuffs in wash a. washington. have we ever had a situation where the federal democracy is leaking information on a daily basis. paul: do you think that's happened to a greater degree