right, for their agenda, and they're not seeing that. so i think because you have this kind of, you know, we've talked about it before jekyll and hide donald trump, that complicates their relationship even further and i don't think there's a single republican plai book to handle this. >> do you think republicans actually think that he was going to be on their side when he won? >> no. i think what the republicans on the hill thought is that they could manage him. i think -- >> why do you think they thought that. >> a lot of the conventional wisdom at the time says the office changes you. >> why would you apply conventional wisdom to donald trump? >> because you do until you can't. that's the reality of it. >> yeah. >> and so you don't assume that the guy who is sort of the gad fly outside the box running for president is going to be that same person inside the confines of the oval office. what trump has done is he's basically stufrpd them on that and he's made it very clear i'm the same guy who is still on that stage who bested the 17