and, you know, that was obviously a huge miscalculation. and the republicans have been trying mightily ever since then to come up with any defense. i mean yesterday, lawrence, the hearing the republicans had one witness a guy named jonathan turley and i'm certainly not going to attack his motivations or anything like that, but i will attack his consistency. because this was their one witness. and this witness is the same guy who said there was a low standard for high crimes and misdemeanors when clinton was being considered. a really low standard. and indeed when president obama was in office he said, oh, you don't need to commit a crime in order for an impeachable offense. and then he goes and turns around and takes all of that back in yesterday's testimony and then says a whole bunch of outlandish things. like for example he says this is an unprecedented investigation in terms of the speed of this impeachment. it's never happened before.