a deterrent to the people in power that there are eyes on this election this time. so whether it results in a conviction or the senate doing something or the courts doing something seems less relevant to me than in a few weeks it s 2020 and we re in an election season. john dean, final word. i d love for you to respond to this. republican senator lindsey graham who, obviously, chairs the senate judiciary committee. listen to what he had to say. the trial in the senate should mirror trials all over america. hearsay is not admitted unless there s a valid exception in any trial in america. my belief is that 90% of the testimony being used by the house violates the hearsay rule. is he right? i don t think lindsey has the chops in the senate to get that rule ever adopted by the senate for an impeachment trial. they ve got the precedent of several trials before. there were a number of judges who have been impeached where
respect have stated unequivocally we are in a greater crisis than we have ever been since the end of world war ii, and i agree with them. but getting back to lindsey graham you are going to be i suppose, his chief surrogate in this upcoming campaign. if he were to ask you to be his vice presidential running mate i assume you would say yes to that. isn t that right? that s i don t think lindsey would be he s really a smart guy. so i don t think he would ever consider such a thing. we are very close and there is no doubt about that, but he understands national security as no other candidate does. do you wish you would have picked him as your running mate back in 2008? no, no, i certainly don t. but i have watched him grow and i have watched him handle his responsibilities on the armed services committee and the budget committee, and i have seen him it s one of the