national political reporter. jonathan, about the hill, very few genuine surprises left and it turns out the guy from arizona who has the truth serum of retirement and is no friend of the president had a move up his sleeve today. you hit it on the head. i m not sure anybody knew what jeff flake was going to do. obviously chairman grassley seemed unsure how to move. you can see him conferring with dianne feinstein. certainly the white house was not going to get a heads up. president trump has tweeted things about jeff flake, calling him a flake. one thing, flake thinks the party has moved a lot on him. when he was in the house he was considered an ultra conservative. in the senate he is considered more moderate. the one thing that s on-cyst ent throughoent consistent with where he is from, arizona, he has the western independence. he is not about geography or
and this is a president who in 2000 said he supported a ban on semi semiautomatics, so this is a chance for opportunity. and what you think that in four hours, we will be in the briefing room, and sarah huckabee is going to be asked about this new bill that might be reintroduced and what might we hear? this is what we have been hearing from sarah is that this is a conversation that he does not want to have right now. and the discussion will happen in a while, and not right now, but we will see if she changes the tune, but i would not expect it. hugh? i think that she will respond emotively, and it is the most traumatic event since sandy hook and certainly 9/11 and people are going ton cyst on the conversation happening, and given that the republicans agree