to investigate an american citizen that is your political rival, is that standard? not a lot routine about that. we saw the white house talking points on full display because they e-mailed them to democrats. central in their argument, is there s no quid pro quo here, in the system today. how important is that argument? do they need that to move forward? i think the quit pro quo, if they can show it existed in a way that s obvious to everyone, or in a way in a is incontrovertible, that is a more serious issue than the president asking for this but not trying to leverage anything for it. t thigh are trying to build the most damning case they can. the impeachment process will be testy. it will be risky.
not only getting it through the cabinet today, it s also getting it thigh the parliament behind me. and the house had of commons are not looking like they re very happy with some of the details here, especially when it comes to the border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland. ahead of that vote, we ve heard from a number of lawmakers, opposition parties that they would vote against the agreement, which they haven t even seen, but based on the details they ve been given so far. so real challenges for theresa may in the days and weeks ahead. we have been hearing from some british officials saying that they want to have a second brexit referendum among the public. remember the reaction after the first one? some people were saying we didn t really know exactly what we were doing. so joining us here on set with axios a.m., nicholas johnston. what is the one big thing? trump s next chief.