politically, in all sorts of ways for a generation at least. >> so that is, at the end of the day, the balance. if anybody were still capable of balancing anything in washington, d.c., that republicans and democrats should balance. if it takes another week, they should wait another week. sth a lifetime appointment. so the question is how does that happen when there is such bad faith between republicans and democrats and republicans are likely suspicious and now they're saying we can talk about an fbi investigation. but the one thing we know is there is a big clock ticking.