senator, are you there? >> yes, i am here. i am here, yes. >> how are we careening toward a constitutional crisis as you said in a statement earlier tonight? >> well, there are very few moments when our democracy has been more fragile than it is at this moment. what the president did is an insult to our constitution and we have to ensure now that the congress exercises the role of checks and balance to ensure that a president cannot fire the person conducting an investigation of that president. and that is after president trump himself called the investigation a taxpayer funded charade and a hoax. so we know that this is in many ways a -- a coverup. it's an obstruction of justice, and it is something that