trying to stop the investigation and don't want to hear from witness cooper today. they more more facts will be delivered that are absolutely damning to the president of the united states. so they're just trying to be a disrupt iran process and the going to fail. you just can't crash committees. i can't just go to any random committee and sit in, i can't walk into a republican caucus and sis in. the facts are not on their side and they're trying to be disruptive. >> hmm, hmm. and manu raju up on capitol hill and can you just, how did this begin? how aware was the president of this plan by these republicans? what do you know? >> reporter: well, there was a meeting at the white house yesterday with some of these republican members and the president where they talked about their impeachment strategy. some republicans insisting this effort to crash these proceedings today did not come up. we'll see as we learn more. nevertheless, this delay, about five hours now. some members i spoke to believe