we re back with our panel. stibing with the politics lead, what could be another pending republican civil war in a dope red state just as we saw in alabama. senator orrin hatch of utah, the longest serving republican in the senate, just announced this afternoon he will retire at the end of his seventh senate term and thus will not be on the ballot this november. this sets the stage for trump nemesis mitt romney to potentially run for the seat and trump s former strategist steve bannon who leagues romney to try to put one of his more nationalist candidates to run in that race. president trump had previously asked hatch to stay on. let s bring in cnn s sunlen serfaty on capitol hill. sunlen, how will hatch s retirement affect the senate? reporter: well, it opens up the senate seat in utah, jake, a solid red state, and, of course, gets some new blood up here in congress. hatch had been serving mere for over 40 years and there was a lot of speculation where he would retire or not at the