forced into tough votes if this starts to extend more than a couple weeks, if it extends past the point of where the house managers present a case and white house counsel present a case. then they get into a tough up and down vote process where they're going to have to take contentious, tough votes. i think it started to shift and i think it will be interesting to see over christmas what polling is. perhaps if polling shows it is good for republicans to drag the process out, maybe that starts to shift again. i think we have to watch and see how things shake out in the upcoming weeks. >> real quickly, people like mitt romney expressed they're open to listening to evidence when it comes to considering impeachment. do you get a sense the republicans may not be lock step in the senate? >> i think there's a few, a handful leaving that possibility open. there were a handful of republicans left that open in the house when the process