documentary evidence the state department isn't turning over. where do you feel in terms of the completeness of the picture that you have as someone who's been sitting in these depositions? >> the evidence is absolutely overwhelming. there is no contrary hypothesis about what happened. our republican colleagues are just shocked into silence. sometimes they'll go back to the conspiracy theory, which has been debunked numerous times about 2016, but they don't have any other way to explain what happened. you know, we have officials in the trump administration like chief of staff mulvaney who have essentially confessed to it and bragged about it. i mean in a lapse of candor, he decided to go on tv and say yes, of course this is how we operate with the quid pro quos. the problem with this quid pro quo was that it was a shakedown to get another government involved in our campaign. that's precisely what the mueller investigation was about, but apparently the president felt as if he had gotten off scot-free there. remember he was chanting that he