republicans are doing. but the reality is at this point, this is going through a process that is supposed to be just with the democrats. we have written about why we got to this point. but the reality is we're at this point. and we've seen democrats, you know, different wings of the party, progressives and moderates, criticize each other publicly. and we are covering that. we saw that two days ago when senator sanders wrote this op-ed in the west virginia newspaper and senators manchin criticized right back. so, we are covering all of those different aspects. but at this point, the path is just to get the democratic party and the democrats involved and on board. >> let me play for you, chad, this clip from jon stewart, former host of "the daily show" on cnn this morning. watch this. >> i think the media does a terrible job at de-escalation. >> yeah. >> and de-escalation is the