hill. nonetheless, this comes after the president hosted republican senators at the white house for lunch today where one of them told cnn impeachment did come up. it was one of the many subjects they discussed. but the president kept bringing up the transcript of his first call with the ukrainian president and then at one point offered to let the senators who he invited to the white house read it. one of them, senator kevin cramer, did read it. he said it was about a page long in substance and he said based on his quick scanning of it that there was no mention of military aid. we were kind of expecting that because one of the witnesses who testified in these closed door depositions said that that first call that trump had with ukrainian president zelenski was so friendly that people were essentially high fiving at the end of it. that's why it stood in such stark contrast to the one we're talking about at the center of the inquiry. of course all this comes as there was another interesting meeting at the white house today. that's where before the president goes to the rally he