do you agree with that? >> i'm going to respect what the senate is doing and i believe that we should suspend anything significant under this presidency right now with respect to foreign policy. i think senator schumer is correct that this is a supreme court vacancy that does not come up very often and in light of this investigation we should put on the brakes. >> it seems the logic of what the senator from new york is saying is a cloud of illegitimacy taints the presidency and the entire thing has to be put on pause. if you thought that were the case for neil gorsuch, i imagine you would think the same thing for the entirety of the agenda. do you think the presence of this ongoing investigation looms so large the president cannot conduct being president of the united states? >> he certainly doesn't act like the president of the united states when he is tweeting what has turned out to be falsities throughout the hearing yesterday. it's remarkable he's not doing the job as president. he's watching a hearing about