you're saying is it's fine to go ahead and do this again. >> meanwhile, the president weighed in on today's impeachment hearing. as we said, he said he had no representation there. but chairman nadler seemed ready for that comment and pointed out there's a reason no representatives from the white house were in attendance. >> they get three constitutional lawyers and we get one. what's that all about? we had no representation. we couldn't call witnesses. we couldn't do anything. it is the most unfair thing that anybody's ever seen. they would have done much better if they gave us equal representation. >> i note that this is the moment in which the white house would have had an opportunity to question the witnesses but they declined our invitation. >> back with us tonight, barbara mcquade, veteran federal prosecutor, former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan. and, barb, in your view did the