and they can't even get on a consensus in their closed-door meetings. he shows them that they can't. i mean, this has been done in much less bumpy ways by speakers, you know, for ages. there's nothing new in that process. now, in the senate, we have word from ted cruz tonight, ezra about how he's going to greet this. he says under no circumstances will i vote to the debt ceiling being raised with only a 50-vote threshold. i think senate republicans should stand united and insist upon a 60-vote threshold, and that is my intention. that has wrongly been reported by some people as a filibuster threat. that is just a kind of standard procedure threat. >> i suspect we'll see many of those press releases from ted cruz going forward. but this is exactly the situation ted cruz wants to be in. he wants to be in a situation where he can stand as a lone sort of conservative holdout against the sellout republicans in washington. but he does not ever want to be in the position that he got put in during the shutdown of anybody actually taking his