is going to be in terms of effectively advocating on behalf of the president. instead, he's answering questions about his own agreement, his own conduct, his own conversations. frankly, that is not where the president needs to be right now. he needs to continue to hammer his basic points that he has been making, and argue that impeachment is a waste of time and that they need to move on and do the country -- >> julie: i want to move on to the hearings. it's going to coincide with the release of the long awaited inspector general's report on alleged fisa abuse, as it will reveal a former fbi lawyer altered a surveillance document on former trump cabinet advisor carter page. the house judiciary committee hearing is going to coincide with the release of this. what do you expect to come out of this? >> this next week, julie, is going to be big, big, big. >> julie: a little bit of a busy "newsweek," what else is new [laughter]