>> dan, we started this segment off playing some sound from republican mitch mcconnell, who took a decidedly different tact than the trump team is taking today which is to say the justice department should sort it all out. he doesn't want to answer questions about that todays a trump is taking the opposite of mitch mcconnell's position. do you think senate republicans are in a different place when it comes to the questions about trump's liabilities here? i mean do they get the same for lack of a better term hall pass that trump gets among republican voters? >> no, i think ultimately it's interesting you played that footage of mitch mcconnell because mitch mcconnell is probably the person most responsible in the republican party that donald trump is still this figure. because as we all remember he floated the idea to convict, and at the last minute made up this