to be a very real thing. so, josh, even if it was a joke, is there an heir of real responsibility by saying these things? sure. there is in much of this administration. i think to betsy s point, i do think the president was joking here about himself. i don t think he was joking about xi and this goes to the way that he s interacted with vladimir putin and a number of other strong men figures around the world where i do think that he envies and admires their style of leadership. i think he envies the way that they don t have to listen so much to their critics the way he has to do it here. this is a president who can t fire his own attorney general whom he hates. he is not anywhere close to moving in the sort of direction. he doesn t have the ability that xi does. i think it would be a nightmare for donald trump to have to be president for the rest of his life given the way that the presidency has treated him so far. so i think there s a part of him inside that would like to be like
that is the way the system works. it women be even worse next year. bill: will make january interesting. mitch mcconnell in the senate, argument you re making robly all likelihood pass from the house to the senate. we ll see very interesting decisions by white house. karl rove, thank you. in austin. merry christmas. bill: merry christmas to you. one of the biggest power players in hollywood is now in some serious hot water after leaked emails show her joking about president obama with many people calling those remarks at the least racially insensitive. bill: also a time capsule, a bit of a mystery. more than 200 years ago by some very problem men figures in u.s. history. prominent. it was very, very hard and dense. we were thinking it might be crumbly after so many years. it is quite solid. so it has taken a long time to chris sill it and drill it.