susceptible to pushback on this issue. i mean, republicans almost never push back on anything trump does. but when they do he always caves. every single time. if the republicans in congress were anything like, you know, the tories in britain that have been standing up to boris johnson on matters of principle as he pursues this brexit thing, if the conservatives in the united states were anything like the conservatives in britain standing up to their leader when they disagreed with him on stuff, we would have a completely different political situation in this country. we would have a completely different policy situation in this country. trump always caves when republicans push back against him. the reason we are where we are is republicans almost never can be bothered to push back. but that may end up being an important dynamic going forward in a big developing story tonight that we are following along with help from a couple of very well-informed guests who are going to join us in jus