and that will continue that way unless and until that base erodes. >> i want to get to your response on this, mark, but let me just read this quote to you. it's from "the new york times." he made a cutting observation about the republican party today in the wake of jeff flake's announcement. there is no room for flake, but there's room for a man who isn't sure if gay people should be executed. he's talking about roy moore, the alabama candidate for senate who talked about punishing gays by death. where do you see this party headed? >> well, it's headed in exactly the direction that donald trump wants it to and steve bannon wants it to, which is to get more roy moors in there. there's a civil war going on in the republican party in a search for its identity. as an example of what happened today -- and by the way, one of the biggest news events of today