everything that's gone on. it goes beyond just washington and the bubble and what so many people here care about and goes into probably these primary races that we're seeing play out and the upcoming midterm elections. what i find so interesting is in of the issues the individual who wrote this brought up were tax reform, deregulation and increasing the military size. so those are actually things very much in lockstep with the broader republican party. so now the question is, how much does something like this really affect the outcomes of november and the midterms? >> to that point, stuart stevens, at what point, what joe just outlined, this person in this op-ed saying we did x, we did y, i was here for that. that's what republican members of congress say. tax reform, tax reform, judges, judges. in your view people that believe the president is damaging the country but are willing to stick around for these other things, are they selling their souls? >> this is sort of a plea bargain with history that the