is -- the president's actions is disgraceful and he puts the country in danger. and to make this short-term political calculation and make it only about your career and not about the people you're supposed to serve is such, such, you know, a sort of a failure to uphold their own oath in office. >> or maybe those career republicans are saying look, we're getting our agenda done while the president is melting down, but he's not our homeboy anyway and he smack talked us for the last 2 1/2 years. if you look at the agenda, it's the kind of things that mike pence and jeff sessions absolutely want to get done. and it's not like they're longtime friends of the president. i want to bring in msnbc's garrett haake. he is on capitol hill. obviously this op-ed is going to be on the minds of democratic senators. it's on the minds of republicans as well. i doubt they'll be asking democrats have to be talking about it with brett kavanaugh. >> yes, absolutely. i think it's one of those things