as powerful as any of the democrats on the committee might be, democrats going after donald trump, will never have the impact that somebody like liz cheney, a very conservative republican from a political dynasty will have. >> yeah, i mean i think for that reason alone, her opening statement becomes extraordinarily important. look, tonight is not just about the politics of it all, it is happening in a political environment, but it's also about the facts of the matter and laying it out in a way that is digestible to people. we've been in the media, listening to the reports for months and months and months. it's out there, but the american people have not had that level of attention on this issue and tonight is about what is the narrative arc of this story? what are the things that we didn't know that we will learn tonight, and it's coming from a bipartisan place. no matter what a republicans say, this is a committee that