say nothing of if we want to see infrastructure and tax policy or another run at health care. i'm duty-bound to ask you, if not mcconnell, then who? is it cornyn perhaps, and why stop there? is ryan's job safe as house speaker? >> you know, i actually think that ryan is more susceptible to this pressure from trump than mcconnell is. ryan has a really, really fractured group of republicans. we have seen the freedom caucus go after him. you have people who are rumbling and grumbling about the vote they had to take on health care only to see it fall apart in the senate, and it's really hard to -- to state exactly how much mcconnell is liked. yes, flake did take him to task in the book, and yes, there are few senators who question, you know, his approach, but he is so popular. i spoke with senators on their way out of town last week, and to a person, they spoke with great respect for mcconnell, and they may grumble and have internal family fights, but mcconnell is popular, and it's up to his fellow republicans whether or not he gets to keep that job, and as long as they like him, it doesn't matter what