authority to to call on china. here a list. the exception to this is will hurd, an outgoing republican member of congress who came on cnn this morning and called it terrible that presidential request. look at the silence there. why is that? and will it change? >> because they don't know what to say. and they don't have to say anything. >> why is it not possible to say the u.s. president shouldn't reach out to a foreign country to investigate an american. >> you're not part of the republican base who believe the president can do no wrong. it shouldn't be hard. you're right. which is which it's interesting that the house republicans and the president himself now they are pressuring the house speaker to take -- a formal vote to start the impeachment inquiry. she just said it that's why there is impeachment inquiry. in the past there have been formal votes to start it. the plt the political a argument is politically dicey for enacts.