of his party's base when he went down to mar-a-lago. he was not leading from the front with what he did. and he made the calculation that if he wanted to achieve -- i mean, he has wanted to be the speaker of the house for years. he keeps missing out on it for various reasons because of mistakes he's made, because of the way elections have broken. potentially if donald trump turns on him in the next couple of months, the speakership race could get really ugly really fast. he really needs trump to embrace him to continue to mitigate the problem. >> john bolton has said several times that he thinks trump is going to go after mccarthy at some point. god knows why, just for fun, for kicks? >> because he can. >> why not? >> exactly. why is he insulting desantis right now? coming up, massachusetts makes history with its pick for governor.