and it is not unprecedented which means anything can happen when the system of checks and balances work. i think what you see here in that liability that s important in this context is people who currently work for the president so they have those obligations of office and they may want to make him happy. but the more they believe personal legal liability, the more they have to think about are they opening themselves up to perjury, how do they want to handle themselves, that strengthens the hands of those in congress who are trying to force a process to get more information about what the president himself has admitted, which is he is seeking help from other countries to kneecap his opponents. you mentioned folks in congress trying to do their oversight work. the democrats have added more deadlines to the docket. what makes it different now is you have democrats who say we re not going to seek remedy through the courts, that s not our focus, we are just going to talk of any more ston