out, he has been responding to this on twitter, calling it a witch hunt and i think you're going to hear his full-throated response when he's out on the trail. he is, of course, in his element when he's out on the trail. you'll hear about usmca, the fact that he's going to beat this. and i can tell you that the thinking inside the white house right now is to really focus on that senate trial. the deputy press secretary out today saying they want to see adam schiff testify, joe biden, hunter biden, but of course, that would require 51 votes and it's not clear that mitch mcconnell is going to be pushing for that, because his main goal is to try to not only protect president trump, but to hold onto the republican majority in the senate. >> very quickly, before i let you go, the lavrov meeting, the foreign minister of russia came to visit the white house today. look, we'll let the novelists and the academics and 30 years from now talk about the coincidence of that meeting hall on the same day as articles of impeachment. what have you learned about the meeting, anything? >> just moments ago, we got a