i suspect they will find i am. and i think the american people will be on my side on a whole bunch of these fights. >> question for you. playing devil's advocate a little bit. >> i don't know what else i can add that's constructive to the conversation. i'm stuchbnned by his performan >> is it possible that the republicans were actually, whether the words were correct or not, able to as halperin put forward yesterday, hold the whole situation hostage? if it's the case, we should have seen it. >> time out. this is the crap we've been hearing for two years. the big bad republicans, they're so mean. the president is being held hostage. no, no. democrats -- if you study your civics class, you have elections and you have a gap between