our congressional republicans willing to play along? are they willing to stick their necks out if r this president and his history? joining me, daniel and jonathan. so darren, i want to start with you. what are republicans doing in order to defend this president. sticking to the talking points the white house has been circulating. they are arguing that he has every right to conduct the diplomacy he was doing in terms of his outreach to the ukrain n ukrainia ukrainians. they are slamming the democrats saying this is not a real impeachment inquiry. you ve heard that over and over again, saying the democrats need to take a vote on the house floor to authorize an impeachment investigation like in the clinton and knicks ben gagss. they re clearly trying to goad the democrats into doing that for campaign fodder to get the democrats on the record clearly the democrats are already on