monkey up the proceedings. and i don't think democrats should be distracted by that. they should move forward. and if republicans, if the president decides that he doesn't want to cooperate in this investigation, then he will just layer on the charges that will be made against him in any articles of impeachment. >> tim o'brien, i'm assuming you didn't believe the president's feint today that if the democrats are willing to be fair he will go along? >> wro think the president will go along with anything no matter what the democrats do. that was written in the stars a long time ago. we're amidst a constitutional crisis. constitutional crisis exists if the constitution is not specific about certain actions the congress should take and if you have players in the midst of this, who will see things through to the end regardless of what the constitution says and you've got a president willing to step into that vacuum and is