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Decreasing. that's important when you consider about the idea that there's 53 republican, 47 democrats. not that much of a gap to make up. you only need -- a 51 vote majority to actually be able to get past any motion to dismiss and on to the actual impeachment trial. seems those numbers may very well be there. right now, yes. the argument that is being made is based on the process. there isn't an exact precedent for this process because in the past you had done the investigative part, steps, the starr report done behind closed doors, but before it actually got into the stage where the congres...

Russian investigation, miller testified. this was all about mueller. here's what happened. ken starr spent almost five years looking at clinton. he came before the committee. we had an impeachment inquiry vote. ken starr put forth to the senate judiciary committee the 11 allegations against president clinton. we passed four articles of impeachment based on the starr report that was transparent, subject to cross-examination. it was a public hearing. two of those articles past the house. what mueller did was investigate the president for two years, spent $25 million, and did not recommend any ac...

To the transparency iss the proper way, i would encourage them to go back and look at what happened during the most widely accepted impeachment inquiry of our time. when the bill clinton impeachment -- there was no investigative phase because it was based upon the starr report which was a multiyear investigation produced of the luminous reports. that was the basis of the impeachment. of bill clinton. the nixon inquiry was different. it was conducted with scrupulous fairness to the president and to the republicans. the president's lawyer was present during the sessions of questioning. the repub...

Flung around with abandon. it was knowledge that at all. there was a sense of respect for the institution of the presidency and the seriousness of impeachment. it was a very different matter altogether and it's the best comparison to make it because it's the one the inquiry is most like. >> martha: and the clinton case there were actual charges that came out of the starr report. i believe there were 12 of them that were found at the end of that and in this case -- this is separate, but that was the case. it is curious when you look at the way that the public are responding at least two poles a...

Intelligence committee, and he said he did not get an early word. he said that on national tv. >> i'm not disagree with you about that. i'm saying -- >> okay. >> i think he did get early word on the whistle-blower. what he said is for him to justify. i'm telling you did shall. >> i say discount the whistle-blower. we don't need it. we have the transcript, and we have the context of the texts from volker. just to be clear, this is -- >> how do you have a transcript, chris? >> you don't get to have a lawyer come in and argue before congress for you with articles of impeachment. you don't do that...