potential republicans who would poke their head out of the hole on something like this, and even for them, they are hearing nothing. >> marx -- mark, i'm wondering where you are on this and on republicans' reaction to it. if president obama had done this and pressed a foreign leader to investigate mitt romney's son ahead of the election i wouldn't be surprised, i imagine republicans would have taken immediate steps to impeach or at least spoken out a lot about it. what do you make of this? >> yeah, obama would be in a gu lag somewhere, anderson. what i make is most republicans now, with a very few exceptions like romney, have concluded that they're working for president houdini, and they just saw that we spent $32 million on a two-year investigation with the toughest prosecutor in america and couldn't scratch a flame. so i think they're looking at that and saying this guy is bulletproof and there's no reason for us to get out over our skis on this. so let's at the very least wait