from the right wing this morning. but the flip side is that rank and file republicans, the ones who the speaker, paul ryan and leader kevin mccarthy can usually rely on to take tough votes that help leadership, they were saying, look, why would we do this if we don t know that the president is going to sign it. the president has not put out any definitive word. kasie never mind, sorry, steve scalise was speaking. it was very brief. sorry to interrupt you. reporter: no worries at all. to pick up where we left off, those rank and file republicans are saying we need a guarantee from the president. everybody went out onto the house floor. they were trying to start counting the votes and what many of these people were saying is we just need the president to tweet. one republican lawmaker was very frustrated with that. he said that s what the expletive serving in congress has come to, that they are simply waiting around for the president to tweet something so that they can decide wha