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As the impeachment inquiry enters week seven, it appears that investigators have heard from the witness who willing to talk. president trump is pushing back against a report that a growing number of senate republicans are ready to acknowledge that the president admitted a quid pro quo, but that the president's actions were not illegal and do not rise to the level of impeachment. joining us now, "new york times" columnist, tom friedman. he's the author of the national book award winner "from beirut to jerusalem," the single greatest book almost ever written about the middle east. >> or ever wri...

Many crazy things. he tweeted over the weekend that the republicans should put out their own transcripts of the hearings that are going on in private now. i mean, there are official court reporters there. there's not going to be more than one transcript. there's no question about the legality of the transcripts. crazy stuff like that, we've just sort of learned to discount that, oh, well, you know, that's just trump talking. but i think that has a cost. the whistle-blower thing has a -- and also, there's a human being there who was around great deal of threat. >> look, it could be obstructive,...

Respond to, if he's not doing it now, if he doesn't have to worry about being re-elected. i think that's the most frightening thing going forward. if he behaves with this regard towards the constitution and his oath of office now, what would he be like if he didn't have to worry about getting re-elected? and i think the most important witnesses -- and this is, i think, critical -- he wants to make this adam schiff versus me. democrats versus me. the real story here, it started with a whistle-blower. it started with the independent civil servants. people who take their oath of office to be dipl...

Divided, here's when you start to break down that divide by party. this one not so surprising. democrats say my side's doing more losing than winning lately. of course democrats are going to say that, republicans have to the senate, republicans have the house, republicans have all those state legislative chambers and governor ships. but ask republicans, they got everything i just put out there in terms of political power, yet a majority of republicans say their side is losing more than it's winning. why is that? well, maybe that's just sort of a natural condition, maybe as humans we like to th...

How is he going to show leadership on this? >> look, the president's number one focus is our national security. he's been very strong on discussing the need for border security and tying that directly to national security. that's a big focus of both the president's campaign at the time and also since he's become president. in terms of specifics of ad running, those aren't done by the white house. i can't get into details. his position in terms of the need for border security and how it impacts national security is something we have been clear on. >> is he bringing the democrats down here, brin...