many times. welcome back to a.m. joy. i m ayman mohyeldin in for joy reid. you saw it there, donald trump defending his use of the word lynching on friday after a week of backlash over a tweet that read in part, if a democrat becomes president and the republicans win the house even by a tiny margin, they can impeach the president without due process or fairness or any legal rights. all republicans must remember what they are witnessing here, a lynching. now, of course, there is no comparison between the impeachment inquiry, which is a lawful, legal process outlined in the constitution, and the brutal practice of white people lynching african-americans to control, terrorize, and dominate them. this was noted in the new york times more than 4,000 african-american men, women and children were lynched, burned,