when others ran. remember who your real friends are. we are trying to help you succeed." i found that interesting, because i heard a similar kind of tone and message coming from another member of the freedom caucus yesterday when i asked about this, if they saw it as a threat or kind of what the response was. some of them do seem to be trying to calibrate the response to the president, instead of just saying, good riddance. why do you think that is? >> donald trump's popular in their congressional districts, first and foremost. they may have a higher approval rating than trump does, but if trump is at 60% in raul labrador's or mark meadows' district, which he likely is, that's going to temper their response. but this is also what we've been seeing now for five or six years that's just now been exposed a bit more because we have trump doing tweets. and that's republican infighting. >> normally, these happen behind closed doors. >> and the other difference is it's not just policy we're seeing, we're seeing name-calling. and there was an op ed in "the