of our colleagues will stand up when they need to. but right now it's concerning to see so many simply say, you know, let's -- let's go shirts and skins on this. >> but there are two separate issues here. because what seems to motivate people now is fear, fear of ending up in a tweet. >> smur. >> fear of becoming a target. >> and a lot of that is new. >> you had a confrontation with the president before he became president. >> right. >> right before the convention last year. and you told him that he should tone down his. >> yeah. >> rhetoric. and he told you you're going to lose your re-election. >> at that time he had made statements when he launched his campaign on mexican immigrants that was derogatory. then he wenten after john mccain and said he couldn't be a war hero because he was captured nonmaking a statement about the judge because of his heritage,