see and feel your pain. >> actually just on a personal note, this is the only nice thing i've seen in politics in the last ten years, was that -- >> let's keep replaying it. >> legitimate compression of friendship and it is nice but congressman meadows hasn't said anything about the attacks on elijah cummings but said something to you. >> i texted mark before i came on because i knew you would talk about this and i've seen the reports cnn and mark told me that i could say what he typed -- he said to me. he said, quote, no one works harder for his district than elijah. he's passionate about the people he represents, and no, elijah is not a racist and i'm friends with both president trump and chairman coup chairmannings and neither of them are racist and they offered to go to baltimore with president trump to remediate the problems they have there. >> that sounds like a great idea. >> i have to say, that is so deeply unsatisfying. having watched congressman