beholden to this president in any meaningful way. i think for a would be freshman senator who is not even here yet somebody i would be watching closely to see if they can perhaps fill that role to reassert that muscular presence in the senate, cares about the united states' place in the world in much the same way, wanted to be president of the united states and was denied by barack obama in much the same way. there are enough similarities there i think that's worth paying attention to. >> michael, how rare is that to garrett's point that john mccain mentored both democrats and republicans? give us a bit of a history lesson here. because right now in 2018. >> doesn't feel like anybody mentors anybody from the other party. >> it doesn't sound the politics we're living in. >> for most of american history, it was a lot more common because you know, if you were a young senator, you would want to learn from the lions of the senate whether they were republican or democratic. so that was something that was