meeting is a key step for the president to name the nominees to fill the seat of retiring justice stephen breyer. andy, always great to see you. kind of reading through the dick durbin interview he did yesterday off camera and does not seem like he thinks republicans are really planning a gold line stance here. you see some of chuck grassley's comments, the ranking member, he does not seem like, he's also the same, does not seem like republicans are right now willing to put up a lot of resistance. do you get that feeling? >> andy: i do and i think it's sensible politics, trace. they can't really stop this, the reason it's done now before the midterms is both i think the biden administration and justice breyer in terms of who his successor was going to be wanted the democrats to be able to be in position to put as strong a progressive as they could find on the court. so the republicans are not in