ted cruz was the pied piper of the conservatives in the house of all places. it backfired terribly. the republican party standing with the public dropped to the lowest level in the history of the gallup poll. people say they won the next election. they did, but that was a year and a couple of months to go before that and a major intervening event, which was wa disastrous roll out of obamacare. shutdown politics are a bad idea and if you are going to try to pull that off, the last thing you want to be doing is threatening it because it means that you are going to be blamed. >> bret: molly? >> i think what you have is a president who really wants to deal with the issue and an establishment in both parties that really doesn't want to deal with the issue and donald trump knows that the leverage he has is with the voters and the only time republicans get the steel needed to take on their donor class and talk about immigration is when they are under threat from voters. donald trump is using this leverage he has to encourage people to actually take action. he's got a strong economy, he's got his second supreme court