intolerable to pretty much everybody in the democratic caucus. >> and, mike, it's kind of two sides of the same coin. if the offense is bad enough, then the politics of it -- political calculation does change. >> yeah, no, i think it totally has. i mean, i think it's a pipe dream for the republicans to think that somehow impeachment will help them because one of two things are going to happen. it's either going to get bad enough that republicans are going to start defecting, which will cripple the president, or the republicans will go into -- and the senate will go into a mary garland mode and stone wall this thing all the way, and the democratic frustration is going to go absolutely off the charts. remember, we're dealing with a president with lousy poling numbers here. he is not operating from a position of strength, a position of weakness. the only question is will the democrats screw this up by nominating somebody that can change the topic of the election. and this impeachment procedure just staples that question to donald trump's head. so i think that actually is a