his proxies in the house are following his play book. when i heard gates go after in an ill advised attack hunter biden struggles with mental health and addiction sounded right out of the president's mouth. what do you know about how closely involved the president is with what they're watching in the house? >> the president feels he's been unable to properly defend himself here, so of course when it's something like this, he feels the strongest defenders are the republicans you saw the most today on the judiciary committee today pushing back on those democrats that are extensions of the president. they know very well what his mindset is because he's made it pretty clear to them over the last several weeks. that's what's interesting over this fight that's happening with the senate trial and how the senate republicans are going to advise the white house. we don't exactly know what that could lead to. but the more that the president watches things like what he did today, seeing doug collins there at the end so angry with chairman nadler over abruptly ending this going into recess