treason and put his own interests from our national security interests. those questions could be held independently. he could still be a bad person, all the things and the reason i'm running but to be independent from this, we have to at this time. all should be sober, 535 congresspeople, should be sober. this is a sad time that we should be putting patriotism before partisanship. we have an oath to put the constitution ahead of our political agendas for the future. >> have you talked to any of the other presidential candidates, the five others who are senators and may be potential jurors in this about how you will all approach this? >> i've got good friendships amongst the senators that are there and have had brief conversations leading into this recess we're in now. all of us, i think, had a similar feeling when we were down in iowa for the iowa steak