Mark Shields:

I think the poll — the polls can't keep up with the events. Events are very much in the saddle.

I mean, we started — the call — what the defense was of the president's call to the president of Ukraine, the president, it turned out, was — we didn't know, was a closet reformer. He was just out to dig out corruption.

Well, the corruption that's turned up now are two of Rudy Giuliani's associates in this whole imbroglio, which I think is significant, because the indictment was announced by the U.S. attorney, and a Trump appointee, a Republican, Geoffrey Berman, Southern District of New York, and the director of the FBI, William Sweeney, in the New York office.

And the U.S. attorney went out of his way to congratulate and thank each of the FBI agents.

Why is that significant? Because one of the criticisms from stalwarts of the president off and on like Ron Johnson, the senator from Wisconsin, is that somehow the FBI and the CIA are faulty in this whole thing.

Judy, I don't think there's any question that we have gone from that to the president was just kidding about China. We know him. He's renowned for his one-liners, which you could write on the back of a first-class stamp, the totality of them.

I mean, every — it's a tissue of lies, all of which is collapsing. And as one leading Republican said to me just before the show, there is nothing in here that's good news, and what I'm worried about now are retirements.

You will start to see retirements among Republicans as they come back from the break.