case against radio host allege jones, which is ongoing. don't miss "full circle." you can watch it streaming live, weekdays at 5:00 p.m. eastern, on cnn.com/fullcircle. we're going to hand it over to chris for "cuomo primetime." >> i'm chris cuomo. become to "primetime." we have new information that changes the scope and the widening fbi investigation into this president's lawyers. this is bigger than just a criminal probe. what do you say? let's get after it. all right. so, here's our new understanding. since at least early 2019, the fbi has been investigating counterintelligence concerns regarding rudy giuliani and his activities abroad. this is not speculation. this is from a lawyer who says

he was questioned by the feds about these issues. think about what this means. at the same time the president was allowing his personal lawyer to run a shadow foreign policy agenda in ukraine, if not elsewhere, the feds were looking into whether giuliani was posing a national security risk. a source tells cnn, the counterintel investigation partly hinges on whether foreign actors were trying to take advantage of giuliani's business connections to reach the white house. this comes, the two guys that were indicted, paid giuliani, for not the best activities, news of a fourth being taken into custody. today is the 1,000th day of the trump presidency. did you ever think we'd be where we are? let's bring in the fbi insiders to make sense of this. andrew mccabe and jim bakker, thank you so much. there's too much to bandy about.

we have the wall going to show a little bit of a flow chart of what we see as the spokes coming off of the hub that is obviously giuliani. just to bring people up to speed of what we're looking at, these highlighted areas, counterintelligence is different than criminal. it's looking at the nature of behavior and what it could mean from a national security perspective. you now have -- iran and speeching. let's leave that to the side for now. the two fellas may work it in. state department with what was going on in ukraine. how that dovetails his work for turk turkey. one or more clients that needed something from the united states government. was he the lawyer? he hasn't been clear. was he supposed to register as a lobbyist? andrew, let's start with you. you look at the new information about what giuliani was trying

to do for people involved in turkey and the meetings that were had. what stands out to you that is new in the state of play? >> chris, i think it's heldful to remind ourselves that the standard for opening an fbi counterintelligence case, when you have conversation, credible facts that indicate a threat to national security might exist. when you think about that standard and you look at the facts -- the few facts that we know. mind you, the southern district has many more facts than we do. you see mr. giuliani reportedly, repeatedly lobbying the president and other in the administration, to return fatula gulan. he has residence in the united states. erdogan believes he was part of a coup to get him. he wants him back. giuliani, all of a sudden, goes to the united states president

and says, you should give him back. the question is why ? he says i wasn't working for turkey. who would want him returned? >> this right. as andy was saying, starting an investigation, i would think, asking a question. what is going on here? what was mr. giuliani doing? who was he working for? what level of knowledge did he have about what the foreign government authorities were trying to do? that's what i'm assuming that the fbi is trying to sort out. the facts are confusing. but that's typical with a counterintelligence probe because the adversaries are trying to make it difficult for what's going on. and the key thing here, one of the things i suspect the fbi is focused on, not giuliani per se, but what the foreign actors were

trying to do and trying to assess whether mr. giuliani -- did he know what was going on? was he participating? what level of involvement did he have? was he a dupe being used by more sophisticated actors to try to influence u.s. policy because of mr. giuliani's direct access to the president of the united states. that was something they would cherish, a foreigned a sor adve would cherish. >> i have one more question. just an editorial point for the audience. i find it so hard to believe that anybody could play rudy giuliani on this level. the players we know about so far, the guys that were indicted, it would be shocking if the man i have known could be manipulated at this level. i have to put it out there. my interest the fairness. jim, the cleric, all right, that's gulan. that's what we're talking about

who was rudy trying to deal with? a little sloppy. this gold dealer here, also. he was helping on. andrew, again, the question there is, he says, at the similsame time, i'm not working for any government. i don't have to register as a lobbyist. but i can't talk to you about why i was trying to get this iranian-turkish gold dealer out of a criminal situation of the united states, because of attorney/client privilege. he's the bauelawyer. does that mean he is exempt of my laws requiring registration? >> it does not. there are technicalities built into the exception from farrah that you're referring to, that his lobbying on raises the behalf that the president might

not qualify him for that exemption. the important thing here is not that he pushed for fetulla fetullahgulen. he has a vendetta against the guy. and he has all kinds of information about turkish corruption that leads back to erdogan. >> what if i'm being paid by somebody else that's not a part of the government, but has some type of affinity to erdogan? do i escape scrutiny, jim? >> no. the question is whether you were working for a foreign principal and not registering. >> it doesn't have to be a government? it co-an be a person or a corporation? >> i think that's right. what was giuliani doing? what was he intending to do? i do think that there is -- the

russian intelligence services are more sophisticated than rudy giuliani. i'm sorry to tell him. but they are. could the people in the middle have been cut-outs, through russian intelligence? we don't know. >> look, on this side, this whole circle of consideration, this is all about money. all right? who was rudy paying? that's supposed to be a "u" technically. who was paying rudy. who was paying the gold dealer? what was the speeching in iran we're hearing about? the idea of him being pro bono takes us to the other side of the analysis. it doesn't surprise me it was counterintelligence and criminal. in terms of what we're looking at in terms of what we've heard of all of this coordinated testimony of people saying, yep, it was shadow foreign policy

going on with ukraine. yep, we didn't like it. we wanted to push giuliani back. yep, we didn't understand why the president was doing this. where does that lead you as an investigator? >> on the counterintelligence side, one of the things you're worried about, is access and influence operations. so, it doesn't matter in essence, you know, the counterintelligence investigators are not going to be focused on what state department's reaction was to giuliani's activity. they are simply looking at what he did and who he was acting on behalf of. the fact that he was in there lobbying for -- in the case of the turks, it appears to be on several different fronts. we also know that he was doing a lot of work in ukraine, which, as i understand it, he explains by saying my foreign business ventures, i'm not representing the foreign governments to the u.s. government.

i'm helping them in foreign countries. if those foreign ventures are turning into conversations with the president, and secretaries -- cabinet secretaries in the white house, that excuse doesn't hold up. >> and some of the testimony today, we have senator chris murphy coming on for perspective on this. he heard testimony from someone that substantiates the idea that rex tillerson, then-secretary of state, was pressured by the president, to help giuliani with what he was talking about on this turkish front. who would have guessed that we would have gotten to a point that the best thing rudy giuliani has going for him and the president, is a belief in a nonconspiracy theory who was out to get the president in 2016. that's the only part of this that is clean. if they believe this conspiracy theory, that the ukrainians were out to get trump, that's the only legit thing they could have

been thinking about and it's completely made up. thank you for helping us understand this. i will theneed you then. we're going to pick this up with a counter in teleauthority. it's easy to say an acronym. what do you have to register for and when? why do we care about any of this? follow the foreign money trail. when does it mccriminal? when does it become a concern? an expert, next. ♪ ♪ applebee's new pasta and grill combos. choose from up to 12 combinations starting at $9.99.

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it's fara. it's not an area of the law you hear a lot about. the implications are high for our democracy and frankly for mr. giuliani. now, david loftman knows this corner of the law well. he oversaw enforcement of this law for the d.o.j. and now helps clients navigate this framework. let's start macro and get micro. why do we care about this? you look at how often it's used. it's discreet. it's a regular with flynn. it was a political gotcha, we were told. why does it matter, this area of the law? >> this is a statute that was enacted in 1930s, by pro-nazi german propaganda in the united states. at its core, it's about promoting transparency and disclosure in lobbying activities or public relations

activities. so the american people, or lawmakers, when confronted with content, if it's lobby organize op-ed, can make an informed assessment based on who they know the party is. if it's a foreign party, the people should take that into account. >> for rudy giuliani, that means if you are involved with something that is of significance to a foreign power, and you're being paid to solicit any help from the united states in the form of the president or whatever, you need to register. >> the way it works, if you're acting in the united states on behalf of a foreign principal, broadly defined to include governments and parties, a corporation, a nonprofit, and you're engaged in certain conduct, described in the statute as triggering, like lobbying or justice activities, you have to register with the department of justice, unless

you come up with an exemption of registrati registration. >> at the meat of what it is about, is rudy have exposure? >> there's resources to unpack what he did on whose behalf he did it. this effort to bring about the removal of fethullah gulen. >> he says i'm not representing turkey. >> that's something the investigators will look into. if it's not representing a foreign interest, whose interest is he representing to bring something that is the highest priority of the turkish president. >> and he dovetails that -- not in specific to the media or the american public, and he has not been with investigators yet, he says he doesn't need a lawyer. he'll say attorney /client privile privilege. he is suggesting he is working

as an attorney in the gulen matter or with the iranian-turkish gold trader he was trying to help. if he's working as a lawyer, when is he exempt from registrati registration? >> it was a lawyer, he could come within the scope of the exemption for lawyers. but that's confined if he's engaged in other things, like trying to influence u.s. government policy, for example. we want to kick this clearic out of the united states to placate our friend, erdogan. or he wants to can a u.s. ambassador to ukraine because the trump administration doesn't think she's with the program, those things would fall outside the protection of this exemption for legal services. >> the rudy says i'm not representing these people and you're not going to get your hands on them as foreign nationals, how do you make the case? >> he invited the government to

examine his digital devices. they're going to interview witnesses, if they have a grand jury enpaneled, they could subpoena bank records. they could issue search warrants for his e-mail records. you develop an evidentiary mosa mosaic, to all logic steps. >> you can investigate it also, but they don't have the teeth of the d.o.j. >> this is a grand jury subpoena. anybody that defies the subpoena, does so at their peril. you have those intenses, in counterintelligence. it's not so much about a crime but national security. and then, you move over to the people who were indicted for supposedly trying to funnel russian money into -- the accusation is, into elections. rudy was paid for them. they seemed to have a lined interest in removing then-ambassador from ukraine to the united states. where does that take you? >> the portion of the indictment seems to cry out fara.

they weren't charged with fara. they were charged with campaign finance violations. it's likely that the southern district of new york, if they are conducting as broad-based an investigation that the newspapers tell us there are, there's some element of that, that includes if mr. giuliani commits a violation of fara. to commit a criminal violation of fara, one has to willfully violate fara. that's what investigations are for. >> this is complicated stuff. the more we learn, the more fits into the areas where rudy has not the legal burden. that's for the government to make. but for the american public and his representation of the government, he has explaining to do. thank you so much, in advance. i ask you to help me understand these things as we go forward. we get more meat on the bones. i appreciate the beginning of what i think will be a long

relationship. >> good to be with you. >> foreign policy concerns. things are starting to dovetail. on a very separate issue, but of course of major importance to us, the letter from the president, to the president of turkey, today. nothing about any of the rudy things. but about the kurds. senator chris murphy is here. he is help us understand the state of play on syria and our aallies. and what did he hear in congress today in testimony that ell ps understand the range of concerns about what happened in ukraine with this president and his lawyer? next. i get it all the time. "have you lost weight?"

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just the more we learn, the more troubling this situation is. just as demonstrable fact, there's no supposition necessary. president trump reportedly wanted his then-secretary of state, rex tillerson, to help broker a deal to get a turkish gold trader out of water. why would a president deal with something that discreet? well, guess who was working on the matter and guess who the president wanted our secretary of state to work with? rudy giuliani. the president will have to answer for how he paid rudy back for his free legal work. i don't know if this president could accept something of that much monetary value for free. on top of that, all of the new questions about what rudy's interests for, financial and otherwise. those questions take us to the

senate foreign relations committee. today, they had testimony from a senior state department official. let's get to democratic senator and member of that committee, senator chris murphy. i have to tell you, senator, the questions have been stacking up faster than i expected here. i thought we were going to be one and done with ukraine as an analys analysis. where is your head after what you heard today? >> well, i mean, this is really hard to understand, how rudy giuliani effectively became the most powerful foreign policy figure in the trump administration. how he became the shadow secretary of state. we're learning more and more about how he was running our ukraine policy and a host of senior officials that were operating through his direction. we're learning more and more by the hour how integral he's been to the president's bizarre

policy with respect to turkey. as you mentioned today, we heard testimony from a senior official that he had taken meetings with rudy giuliani, with respect to this request giuliani was making, to let off the gold trader from prosecution for avoiding u.s. sanctions. >> did rudy admit to that? just to, like, have the audience follow along. did rudy tell the official, i represent this guy. i'm his lawyer? >> we didn't learn that today. what the state department official said, a former attorney general came in to talk about arab. he brought giuliani with him both times. we have this reporting suggesting that trump asked tillerson on giuliani's behalf to step in. i think it's important to note there's no national security rationale for letting somebody like this off the hook for avoiding sanctions.

remember, trump has been making a huge deal over the course of the last two years, how he is imposing the crippling sanctions on iran. there's truth to that. why on earth was this one individual afforded preferential treatment other than he had rudy giuliani showing for him. >> where does that take you as far as what your concerns are, when you look at the broader question of this president and abuse of office, with what we learned about with rudy giuliani and ukraine. >> i think it's hard right now to jump to conclusions. you hinted at one possible explanation. if rudy giuliani was running ukraine policy for the president, and trying to get the bidens and the clinton investigated, and wasn't charging the president for that work, was the president giving him consideration in some other form, through turkey policy changes that benefited rudy's bottom line?

we don't know that to be the case today. but we can't come up with any policy reasons why trump was doing giuliani's bidding. and we can't figure out why giuliani was doing the ukraine work for free on behalf of the president. there's lots of dots to connect here. it does suggest that this ukraine story, which we know is corruption at its core, may be connected to some of the strange things that were happening surrounding turkey. >> i'm shocked that rudy giuliani does not believe he needs a lawyer at this time. he has counterintel and criminal investigation going on by trump's d.o.j. i know it belongs to the american people. but it cannot be easy to get that kind of probe started against the president's lawyer in this political climate. now, to the bigger concern. the president had a letter that had to be penned by him today. here's a letter that was released. i guess to kind of help bolster the idea that this president is serving american interests in turkey, kind of insulting the turkish leader about don't be a

fool. i'll come after you. do the right thing. is it fair to say, senator, the only reason we're in this situation of watching the kurds fighting for their lives is because of what this president did? >> absolutely. the president green lighted turkey into syria. he cleared the way so turkish troops could enter and slaughter and massacre the kurds. it's the biggest double-cross of the presidency. and the president is panicking. he realizes there's no constituency that supports this. republicans don't support it. democrats don't support it. nobody in the foreign policy supports it. and the kurds are being annihila annihilated. >> why did he do it? >> why did he do it? i don't know the answer to that. obviously, we've got to get to the bottom the giuliani story. we need to understand trump's financial dealings. i will say this -- the president has been pretty clear from the

get-go that he wanted our troops out of syria. but if that were the case, there was a way to do it that made a lot more sense than pulling them out with a day's notice. our troops ran for their lives. tonight, we're bombing our installations inside syria because we left so quickly we couldn't get rid of all of our stuff. he didn't have to do it this way, even if this was a policy choice he wanted to make for a while. >> you saw the reports from a russian journalist inside u.s. bases. they were inside there. and now, they're doing stories on how americans lived on the base. crazy, crazy days. senator chris murphy, thank you for helping us understand the state of play and make some sense of where we're headed. thank you. >> thanks. look, a lot of the questions wind up playing to big ideas about what our elected leaders are supposed to be about. and there is something interesting that a number of

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all right. there's bipartisan backlash

against this president and specifically his decision to withdraw troops from syria. there was a big vote today. a house vote overwhelmingly condemned the president's ve. 354-60. we don't see that kind of bipartisanship these days. it shows what a stark issue this is. less than one-third of republicans stuck by trump on this issue. i don't get why any of them did. one of them is congressman tom reed of new york. he is part of the co-chair of the problem solvers caucus. the question is, does today's vote show a problem ducking disposition? >> chris, it's good to be with you. >> the concern is obvious, congressman. if you don't vote the way your colleagues did today, you were saying it was okay to abandon our allies. is that the message you want to send? >> no. the message i'm sending is congress needs to do its job. congress has been playing fast and loose with authorizing our men and women in harm's way.

when obama asked for our approval in congress to put boots on the ground in syria, i was against that. i don't know how members of congress in the hypocritical way they voted today, said it's okay to have troops on the ground when they're not authorizing those troops and making the argument that the president didn't have authority to put those troops there. have congress do its job. >> i'm with you. we use the hash tag #doyo #doyourdamnjob, we're so vulgar. i don't know if you can get credit for that. when he bombed in syria, you didn't say not to. i can't find anything from you on that. i get not going into syria. but abandoning your allies is the best way to get troops out of syria? >> no. i understand the concern and the impact it has on our allies and the kurds. at the end of the day, we as congressmen owe an obligation to

the men and women who risk their lives. we should be on the record if we support the men and women being on the ground in syria. it's not there. there's no authority by congress to do this. and we act stronger, chris, when congress backs our troops up going on the record. nobody wants to take that vote because that's politically taxic. >> men and women who are on the ground. you've seen the stories about how betrayed they feel. i'm not talking about the kurds. i'm talking about the americans. this was a chance for you and congress to say, mr. president, i don't know what's going through your head. but this isn't the way that america behaves. you sent the opposite message. >> i sent the message -- i owe my primary duty to our men and women in our military. if we send them into harm's way, we better be on the record supporting that action as a congress. what these guys did today was duck that responsibility. and they were able to say, we're going to contend trump. at the same time, when the question comes about redeploying troops to syria, will they say

trump had the authority to do that? they will probably say no. they are condemning him. zbri don >> i don't see the two as the same thing. my criticism is you let this president and presidents before him take your authority. congress is supposed to declare war. and you guys won't even negotiate. and republicans stop it. you should go after your own colleagues. that's not what today was. >> i go against my colleagues. that's what the vote today was. >> today was, you should not have abandoned the kurds. >> when i went to the floor, that was my suggestion. you have not done your jobs. there's no authority to have them on syria ground. that's what president obama asked me. and i reaffirmed that mission today. give me a mission and authority in congress. congress do its job. and we send the message to all

our allies, congress is backing up their commander in chief. >> did you say, i want you to understand what my vote is. but what you did with the kurds was cowardly and un-american and we look terrible. we don't have any guarantee of allies to fight against isis. >> i guess you approve of men and women being in syria under our military banner and doing that without congressional authority. >> i was asking you to do your job. you dent speak out when he domed in syria. i don't know where this belief is in consistency. you can't double the wrongs. you did a double-wrong here. >> chris, i appreciate that judgment. when you're bombing, seeking intelligence, that's different than putting men and women on the soil, boots on the ground. >> true. but use of military force. and you're supposed to do both. the only time the president can do it himself, as you know, is imminent threat, our people or our foreign interests.

that bombing didn't qualify. but you never said anything. >> when we bring our men and women home, i will share that concern about our men and women. i'm going to continue to stand. if we're going to go into harm's way, congress needs to do its job. that's the message i sent today. i'm proud to put my vote down. >> i hear what you're arguing, congressman. why did you argue that you recognize the long relationships we have with our allies. and this president knows who our friends are across the world and will stand with them through thick and thin. did he stand with the kurds through thick and thin? >> i understand that concern. i accept that criticism. at tend of the day, this is about prioritizing men and women of the military, over the kurds. i chose to stand with the men and women of the military. >> couldn't you have done both? >> that's the point. we should do both. that's where congress needs to do its job. this political cowardice has to stop. congress has to have the vote on the floor of the house and in the senate. for years, they've been ducking this question. they ducked it with president

obama. they're ducking it with president trump. >> i agree. >> i think that's where -- >> i don't see this as an aumf issue but i give you that. let me ask you something about cowardice. this group of 60, i can't make you amonolith. if this president has a compelling case made against him of an abuse of power, based on what happened in ukraine and maybe otherwise, are you even open to voting for articles of impeachment? >> well, it depends on where we go with this process. but i see right now, i don't see impeachable offenses. i can't predict the future. >> you're open? >> i don't see an impeachable offense. i don't see this level of aggression or transgression that the democrats think is impeachment worthy of. >> understood. but you're open? >> of course. if you have evidence that's new or a different presentation of the facts, you're open to that. >> tom reed, appreciate you

coming on to make the case. >> i appreciate it. does today's syria vote -- why am i asking these questions about impeachment? what does it have to do with this? here's my argument coming up -- why did the 60 men and women stay with the president on something that is so wrong? i gave tom reed his say about authorization of use of military force. i argue that's not what today was about. i'm going to make tahe argument of what today says about what's coming in our future. next. it's easy to move forward when you're ready for what comes next.

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all right. my hope is that you're seeing what's happening. by all accounts, the kurds are in a desperate struggle after this president gave turkey a green light to start an operation that anyone with a modicum of intelligence had to know would lead to exactly what you're seeing, okay? blood is flowing, and yet here is the reckoning of this president. >> so i view the situation on the turkish border with syria to

be for the united states strategically brilliant. >> our view? who does that include because i argue to you that how our leaders deal with this obvious bad act by our president is a window into our future. we start with the fact that some of the president's strongest supporters in the senate disagree. >> he will have american blood on his hands if he abandons kurds because isis will come back. and if any american is killed anywhere because of a resurgent isis, it will fall on trump administration. >> i think it was a mistake, and i hope it's not too late to stop this aggression. >> you're not used to hearing that, right? that tells you that's how clearly they see this. that takes us to the house and a window into our potential future. by that i mean impeachment. why? because this situation in syria is such clear proof of bad

judgment, bad policy, and bad leadership that it serves as a litmus test for whether the right is about principle or patronage. 354 representatives voted to approve a resolution opposing the withdrawal from syria. that included 129 republicans. that's a show of force, and it proves that left and right can still be reasonable. but not all could own what should be obvious. 60 members stood with this president, and i argue that evidences a problem. if you're against having troops in syria, fine. but that can't justify abandoning allies who depend on us for their survival, can it? take louisiana congressman ralph abraham. he told the kurdish tv station this a year and a half ago. >> the kurds that are fighting alongside our american troops, they all shed blood with us, and we need to respect that.

we need to honor that, and we know who our friends are now. >> he's right. but this president did not honor that, and yet abraham showed him the respect of obedience anyway, as did representative john carter from texas, who said this the summer before the election. >> trump will do the right thing by those who stand up for america and the courage that have stood up for the united states of america. >> well, trump won. he was right about that. but then this president did decidedly the wrong thing to the kurds by his own reckoning. yet representative carter supports him despite the president spitting in the kurds' face. >> i'm not going to get involved in a war between turkey and syria, especially when if you look at the kurds -- and, again, i say this with great respect. they're no angels. >> with great respect, this was

a bone-headed decision. and who is an angel among us? not me. certainly not our president. but one would think a measure of respect would be found for the 11,000 kurdish fighters killed fighting for our interests against isis. but our president is not alone in exercising bad judgment, even surrendering american ideals in this instance. i argue some or many or maybe close to all of these 60 republicans who stood with him, they're no angels either. so will they similarly ignore their oath and reality out of fealty to this president if asked to judge his dealings with his ukrainian counterpart? more importantly, will a significant number of the right in the senate make the same play to this president? will they ignore an obvious case of bad judgment and abuse of

office, holding up money to ukraine, back-door dealings to mislead diplomats, the movement of information to a secret server, all of which was identified by and stupefied a number of his own people. the question is whether these 60 and, more importantly, gop senators of the same disposition -- will they stay true to their oath or to trump? now, if it's a matter of conviction, fine. all we can ask is integrity. but as with the syria vote, if you turn a blind eye to the facts, showing the same willful blindness it takes to think that turning tail on allies is okay, then this president may have nothing to fear when it comes to removal. but we have a lot to be worried about in terms of the integrity of our leadership. that's my argument. now, here's my question going forward. we're going to show you what's happening to a top republican who has not chosen fealty.

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be on the lookout. it's bolo time. today's house vote on syria shows the conviction of some and the craven disposition of others. but fear leading to fealty makes sense with this president. take senator mitt romney. he blasted the president's attempts to get ukraine and china to investigate the bidens. he says they were brazen, those attempts, and appalling. now club for growth, the conservative pro-business lobbying group is running this ad in utah. >> posing as a republican, he tried to infiltrate trump's administration as secretary of state. >> a president like trump is the

very man who can lead us to that better future. >> now his cover is blown, exposed by news reports as a democrat's secret asset. >> this to a man who was once the republican party's presidential nominee. bolo! other republicans may fear a similar warning shot and stay silent on issues they might actually oppose. be on the lookout. so will we. thank you for watching. "cnn tonight" with d. lemon, the man, starts right now. >> i'm really mad at you. look at how red my eyes are. you know why? because i stayed up late into the night watching you. you guys were great. >> that was not going to be my guess. >> don't even go there. are you kidding me? do you think -- so let's talk about the mitt romney thing. i mean come on. this is a joke. you know why this is happening. because there's concern about impeachment, real concern. i know you reported these numbers. we've been reporting them. you saw this new gallup poll, right? 52% of americans