speaker and leadership want to pass rules changes the freedom caucus doesn't like. what they have as leverage is simply their caucus vote of 40 to say if he passes these rules changes, we aren't going to vote for him. they are negotiating and doing fancy footwork now in order to prevent rules changes like vacate the chair motion which was the motion that led to speaker boehner's downfall. >> sounds like the type of thing we have heard before. >> posturing? what? >> harumphing. posturing. mary katherine, there is this question about whose party is it after this election. the question is being asked right now and it will really be asked after this election, look, if donald trump wins there's a clear winner, a clear answer to whose party it is. if he loses, what's the answer? >> yeah. i think the fight is raging as margaret points out, that's going on behind the scenes right now. a little more context, one of the happiest men in america is john boehner, who kicked back with a 9 iron and bordeaux.