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2020. but i've heard folks make the point, well, after all, republicans won the presidency in 2020. >> but they lost seats. >> a handful, right. four or five seats. >> but at the time it was enough that newt gingrich had the step down. but i still think that, again, there is no way you can really predict, but i think if you're looking at what people are rolling, the average american tends to tune out this noise in washington. they tend to say this is what people do. >> they've got a little league game tonight, no one was talking about it. >> they say this is what they do. that go and investiga...

Critics wondering why the justice department and congress would waste millions of tax dollars to investigate whether the baseball player used steroids. shannon bream is live in washington as the case proceeds. shannon? >> reporter: well, as you know, jon, this is the second time the government has mounted a case against roger clemens. it's estimated that it's already cost several million dollars to this point, and there is concern today that andy pettitte's testimony has thrown a wrench in the government's case. until this peek pettitte had -- week pettitte had sounded firm in his testimony th...

Softened his testimony about whether he confided about will he used hgh. they are trying to avoid a mistrial. >> when you have big high profile cases and a jury doesn't convict or a judge throws it out for some reason, it really raises questions about whether the government is putting its resources in the right location and whether they really have a good sense of what is worth prosecuting and what isn't. >> reporter: this time around the justice department has more than double the number of prosecutors on the case. though the government is still fielding a smaller than the defense team. >> th...