that this call took place. and either he felt emboldened by that, by getting off scot-free, or having the mueller probe lifted off of his back, and then in releasing the transcript, it was almost giving pelosi and adam schiff the weapons to use against him. >> that's exactly right. the argument you've heards ove and over from the republicans, you heard it ytoday, is that t democrats have been moving towards impeachment since the day president trump took office. that's contradicted by the very fact that nancy pelosi was very clearly not going to impeach the president. >> as was adam schiff. >> as was adam schiff, until he took this step to extort a foreign government into a openi an investigation into one of his political opponents. we heard a lot today from the republicans about the process, as we've heard over and over again. that is going to be a more and more difficult argument for them to make as this goes forward, as phil rucker said, we're now about to turn to the point of this investigation where we will