which makes me one smooth operator. ah! still a little tender. (vo) go national. go like a pro. welcome back to "the 11th hour." we're back with our national political correspondent, steve kornacki. fascinating stuff at the board today. happy to be joined by host of the npr politics podcast, tamara keith. so tamara, welcome to the broadcast. let me ask it this way. these republicans we just talked about who are vacating these seats, one way of asking it is, what do they know about what's going to go on in 2018 that others maybe are going to follow them in? >> well, one thing they know is they've been in congress and know it's not a very fun place to be right now. since 2010, congress has been