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Best. and the argument that that really constitutes an impeachable offense becomes more of a process argument that doesn't go to the merits. notice also hear that you are so far away from talking about what i thought this was supposed to be about, which was efforts by the democrats to contend that this really was bribery. you don't hear bribery in either of those -- it's extremely dangerous. read federalist 75. what hamilton says is that the judiciary is the empire between the executive and the legislative. the legislator is not supreme in this country as it is in england and parliamentary dem...

>> reporter: this is a new tactic. across the white house, you see this from congressional republicans as well. they're attacking the process. they feel as though, when you talk to white house allies, they feel as though they're winning the process argument. you had the letter over the weekend from pat sip own knee. he had strong language from adam schiff. it sounded he went further calling adam schiff deranged. we'll have to go back and look at his list of schiff insults, to see if that advances it in any material way. the main new line of attack they have on these hearings is they're unpatri...

There are always strategies going in. what are you hearing now? >> we don't know publicly who the witnesses are. we know there is going to be about four mostly law professors laying out the constitutional and academic argument on the impeachment issue. that's really allowed the president, the white house and republicans to see that process. they pointed out a comparable hearing. they had 19 witnesses totaled and they had two and a half weeks advance to prepare for these meetings. the timeline is compressed and frankly unfair for the white house. that argument, that's the process argument that ...

The democrats perverting what is a constitutional process by sort of forcing it down the throat of the american people without giving due process to the sitting american president, without giving him the right to defend himself. the president wants to make that argument, too, but he still can't quite let go of the idea of wanting to defend himself on the substance as well. >> i think it's easier for them to make that process argument when they're on the outside. it's easier to shout from the outside that this is a hoax, and they're not involving us in that process when they're not involved at ...

Table. so will -- would the democrats even entertain a list of potential candidates that the republicans might extend, you know, aside from the request for a white house counsel. >> well, republicans, if they submit a serious request for witnesses, then i think democrats would absolutely entertain that idea. but doug collins has also said that they want adam schiff, the chairman of the intelligence committee, to be their first witness, which democrats of course are not going to entertain that idea. this is someone who's just become a punching bag of the gop and the president throughout the imp...