reaching out to my republican friends and others because we were under attack by hostile foreign country and so crowd strike, a firm that we hired to help us, help us and the type of manipulation and the type of daily harassment we face, we tried to get as much help as possible, clearly from the obama administration. but when it comes to the politics of this, since we want to talk about the politics, the framers of the constitution gave the power of this conversation on impeachment -- it's a solemn responsibility for the house of representatives. they are going to take their responsibility very seriously. they should not be about political -- this should be about the future of our democracy. >> martha: all right -- >> with all due respect due respect -- >> martha: five seconds. >> the democrats announced that they were doing and impeachment hearing before the whistle-blower and before the transcript became public. they decided to go down the path of impeachment prior to ever having any evidence. >> martha: we will later >> we will continue this later.