tenuous. >> well, right. and they're looking at some of their members and their -- mortality is a thing and there is -- and that they're also looking at what republicans did. just, you know, a few years ago with amy coney barrett or a year ago, my gosh. they're looking at that and saying, look, now there's precedent to go a bit faster. in terms of biden slowing down the process, when was the last time biden surprised us where we were like, oh, that was left field. >> or that was fast. he's said he was going to make it december, december means january, january means february. >> with the nominee he could slow this down. once this gets in chuck schumer's hands there is a lot of pressure outside and internally to get this through. take the w because they need it. >> and i think that once it gets into chuck schumer's hands that's a whole different ball game and it's going to be about the white house wanting to defend the nominee who we know