with baseless privileged claims and provide any exculpatory information. >> alex marquardt, thank you very much. let's chew over this news with our panel. and mary katharine, one of the excerpts from the republicans on the house intelligence committee, their rebuttal says which they say president trump not only this doesn't rise to the level of impeachment but that he did nothing wrong. one of the quotes, the democrats impeachment inquiry is not the organic outgrowth of serious misconducts it is an orchestrated campaign to upend our political system and the democrats are trying to impeach a president based on the accusations and assumptions of unelected bureaucrats who disagreed with the processes. is that how you see it. >> many democrats have wanted to impeach him from day one. >> absolutely. especially the one that introduced articles of impeachment in 2016 --