what you are saying and we'll make sure to track that and report that at a minimum at least to the dcc. >> [off mic] >> that's right. thank you for that. >> i'll run it as a test so we can have firsthand knowledge here. i'll volunteer to do that. [laughter] >> the group to contribute to my retirement. [laughter] it's free for three months. that's right. >> just so we can speak from a firsthand view. my younger daughter here she'll be well taken care of. >> and generations to come >> to evaluate the things i'm going to ask the committee to put on the committee's agenda is the success definition. without the definition, i won't say it doesn't make sense to have goals but the goals are more than just participation. the comp program and the mission of the defined benefit program are put together. we are working on that linkage that was planned when we put this rfp up. >> thank you commissioners. >> no further question i'll call for public comment. >> i just want to note again that directed to the entire staff worked through this transition day and night. it was a lot of time going through

weren't getting the public opinion polling that they wanted, they focused grouped it at one point in the dcc, democratic campaign committee, they were focus grouped determining what the proper article of impeachment should be. so is there any surprise that adam schiff is desperately trying to conjure up this emotion to close it out yesterday? >> i'm not surprised. there's no facts to support this effort. you think he would have learned from jerry nadler's belly flop in the mueller investigations and hearings that you have to be prepared and make sure witnesses can deliver. his witnesses went after writing checks, that did not deliver on the impeachment promise. so if i'm nancy pelosi tonight, i'm feeling worried about my prospects because she has painted herself in a corner. she has to do something or she will lose her position and the party will lose at the polls. it's going to be a dud and dead on arrival in the senate. >> laura: robert, i want to go back to that issue of obstruction of justice. again, they're frantic in their efforts to tie this back to nixon. people think oh, if it's lik

and you chaired the dcc, which is where i know you from. are you saying that if you had any doubt that there were no -- there was no basis of investigating, there was no basis of a potential abuse of power on an impeachable act, you and the speaker would not have gone forward. you took a lot of flak from people that you should have been moving forward earlier, and you didn't. you took that flak, including from me. were you convinced you had to bring this to the senate that there was enough there that had to be investigated? >> reverend, what i would say is that it was very apparent as the investigation continued to move forward that there were serious actions taken by this president that concerned me, that were a clear violation of the president's oath to the united states of america, to the constitution, that jeopardized our national security, and opened up our three weeks ago corruption. when donald j. trump himself in the notes that he released show that he was asking a foreign president, the president of ukraine, for a favor, to investi