to, but he want to look at those who are going to be on the ballot in this midterm election. this is where we're going to see the ice break and senator corker's words today i think are an important sign that the ice, which has already started to break, is breaking in more dramatic ways every day. >> ayesha, people have been asking me all year when are republicans going to start moving away from him? i always use the same word every time. you have to be patient. you have to be patient. you have to be patient. time moves much more slowly for them than it does for the spectators out there who are watching this. and senator corker, as john mentioned, one of the people considered for secretary of state. he took himself -- he's one of the people who took himself out of consideration for that before the president could make any kind of decision on him. he's the one who looked at this and said, i don't want to be a part of this. >> well, yes. but he has been -- senator corker has been, for the most part, very supportive of the president. he has criticized him in the