flunkies, the three amigos pursuing the shadow foreign policy of rudy giuliani, and the amazing stream of people coming forward at risk of their jobs still employed in the government to basically say this was wrong? >> well, i think we have to pay tribute to the courageous public servants who are standing up at great personal risk to tell the truth. i worked in government for decades. i never had any clue what the political servants of the career foreign service officer, their career servants telling truth to power and deserve our strong support and applause. what's happening around the president is an effort to deflect, dissuade, create distractions here. what they need to do is stop deflecting and, frankly, start planning a defense, and i think that's what's going to happen once this impeachment program begins officially, really, next -- tomorrow. >> yeah, the planning and defense, ian, strikes me -- the president who sort of led the charge in all of them whining about the process now telling