how they're going to vote on it, i've got a bridge i'll sell you sitting right behind me. >> a very nice bridge. >> this is a purely partisan exercise to affect the election. democrats want to put republicans in bad spots on votes. >> i think it's about a little more. you are fair-minded conservatives, i want to read a quote to you from your former colleague and still republican jeff flake who wrote an op-ed in "the washington post." the line is the president did nothing wrong. he writes, as dogma demands, there are members of our party denying objective reality by repeatingly line that the president did nothing wrong. my colleagues, the danger of an unuth truthful president is compounded when the coequal branch follows that president off the cliff into the abyss of unreality and untruth. >> john, i have a tremendous respect for senator flake. he's a man of great integrity, but you also have to consider the fact that there are many