that the president and the minority, the republicans, will have to be a part of that new phase. so i guess the question remains, can you change any minds? or do you think it s already baked in? i mean, did you ever i hope so. did you ever consider, for example, of not moving on to this new phase? yes, and actually that s why i i believe it would have been irresponsible to just jump to conclusions. we went into this with an open mind. all the arrows have pointed toward the president running a shakedown scheme with tax payer dollars over the ukrainians. but i will point you to francis rooney, a republican who was quoted yesterday in the new yorker commending chairman schiff for the fair process he has run so far. you were also quoted in that new yorker article. and i think you said something that kind of gets to the heart of the challenge for democrats. you said and i m quoting you, we have this bomb shell confession. so we don t want the public to be thinking there s somet