so mesmerised we're going to have to trump they've lost all common sense well joining us now is boris foreman he's a professor of political science from bard college here in berlin good to see you again boris what do you make of that white house letter and rudy giuliani's defense of. they're trying to find a footing and trying to find a strategy to counter the impeachment trial they're trying to portray trump as trump transparent also pointing out that some basic procedural rights have been offended and i think this will be ultimately for for lawyers to clarify they're also trying to do something which is not ultimately surprising which is to render it into a partisan issue to say the democrats are basically trying to undo the presidential election but if of 2016 but if that were a legitimate claim. impeachment as a procedure basically would be out the window how much do you think that this white house decision this move to block people from testifying did these stated unwillingness to cooperation how to cooperate how much do you think this will affect the impeachment inquiry well i mean the