behavior impeachable, it is certainly going to become the standard by which future presidents operate. by the way on the political thing, one thing to remember george w. bush did win the presidency in 2000 promising, as he put it, to restore honor and integrity to the oval office. so i'm not quite sure the politics really hurts the democrats. >> there was a piece in your paper over this weekend looking at concern among moderate democrats about the ad buys that we have seen from republicans in their districts. so you have the house speaker making this moral argument. at the same time, bob, she has to be cognisant of the fact that there are political ramifications of this. what are democrats doing to buffer that as this process proceeds? >> they're doing many things, david. when i was up at the capitol over the past week talking to house democrats, especially those from the midwest and other competitive areas of the country, they were not leading their arguments to me about their re-election in terms of impeachment. they were talking about trying to get usmca, the new version of