from under them by the president. the other thing, not get too far in the weeds but this is very important. joe biden believes in d.c. statehood. he always has. he believes d.c. should be a state. he believes in home rule for the district of columbia. but in this particular case because politics is more important to him than any sort of principle or anything like that he is willing to flip all of that on its ear in order to score a political point or to salvage something politically. whereas republicans are okay with this because they don't believe d.c. should be a state. they do not believe in home rule for the federal city because that is where the country -- meant the whole was figured out the first place. but, it really does go to show how important, how much politics and partisanship trumps every principle. everything for this white house. >> it is a great point especially if you look at his career, he has been changing his