it's not like the election is this afternoon. >> can you imagine even a hypothetical? then he had this lament on if he had adopted the tone, look where we would be. a lot of trump supporters are moving past him but the point you make about the coe message and trump outlasting trump, i think you're right about collins. he's got that lasting message. >> i'll be curious to watch him and a few others. i want to go to this jason chavitz thing. how much he said yesterday felt like the first campaign pitch to speaker of the house? i don't mean to be that cynical about it, but is it? >> i sort of read mccain's comments that we'll block everything forever, ted cruz's comments that we only need eight people, all this positioning for the future showing that they're going to be firing against hillary, making sure the base knows that ted cruz is going to run for reelection in 2018.