which i assume that it will be, then americans will have a clear choice two years from now. so that's what democrats are counting on, it looks like that may be fulfilled, and the other thing that it is actually really striking here is the fact that should mccarthy actually win this position, he's going to do so, having made so many concessions that it makes him so weak, one wonders what kind of republican congress are we going to see. we already know they're intent upon investigating in a retaliatory fashion against democrats. we already know that. what else are americans going to be subject to in these next two years? and that's what i think the democrats are, that's the conversation that the democrats are setting up to have. >> i want to ask the same question. do you think this whole debacle is weakening the republican position but potentially the republican institution itself? >> it is, lindsey and the house republicans for some years now have been engaging in these