impeachment go through, you've got to have republicans onboard. it's a political question. so putting aside the technical term of conspiracy and who there's anything there, does the move you see here from republicans to say, look, this is too far, we'll vote against, could it end up bag small predictor of what is possible or not? >> it is -- i think we ought to be very cautious on this. the -- what the republicans are objecting to now is far short of the republicans potential voting on impeachment. there have to be a lot more here, but it does show that the republican unity is cracking on this and orr fronts. such as the shutdown. and that the president does not command the -- is not in command the way he once was. he's much more vulnerable, he's thrashing around. and all of that is to suggest that this has gotten a lot manufacture seriomore serious. i also think, frankly, we're looking at a longer period of time for mueller than we thought. we thought it might be a matter