your experience as the lead manager in trump's first impeachment trial. are you surprised, sir, with all that has happened since that impeachment trial, that republicans have largely failed to stand up to donald trump? >> well, i am surprised on the one hand, but at the same time, it's so true to form of what we have seen over the last several years. you can draw a pretty straight line from the president's russia misconduct and his escaping accountability for it to ukraine trial and his acquittal and again escaping accountability, leading to now the insurrection and yet, even though you can draw a straight line between all of those efforts of accountability, their lack of success and new and even worse things by donald trump, they are continuing to push out the big lie that led to the insurrection to begin withing, the big lie about fraud in our election. the question is where does that straight line lead us? so it's very discouraging.