this is what i called for impeachment proceedings before this because the president of the united states was undermining congress to perform -- undermining congress in performing its role, which is to provide oversight. so here you have a whistle-blower report that credibly implicates the role of the attorney general. we must investigate the attorney general's actions in this case. >> the complaint says that multiple white house officials listened to the ukraine call and thought that they were witnessing an abuse of office for personal gain. some were directed to move the transcript to, it's called a code word server, level server. if the information got to foreign intelligence, could this be used to blackmail those officials, maybe even the president? >> well, remember, the cover up in the case of iran contra, in the case of the nixon case -- >> worse than the ihm. >> crime. >> worse than the crime. people are recognizing by their actions this is something wrong. they're doing this courageous