so listen to republican congressman matt gaetz when he spoke to cnn earlier this morning. >> you heard my commentary. what kind of a precedent would we be setting for future elections if the president's requests for foreign assistance in our elections is normalized? >> well, i have to reject the premise of the question. i think that the president's context for these discussions isn't forward leaning into the next election, he is attempting to solicit ukraine support to finding out what happened in the last election. it is a retrospective conversation as it relates to the ukraine. when you look at zelensky praising trump for creating a populist rhetoric that was helpful to him in routing out corruption, i think you see two men on the same page, frankly trying to leverage against europe to get europe to do more for the ukraine. >> so how is it sustainable that it will appear to be normal and okay that a u.s. president can invite other countries to investigate americans who are in