intimidation factor because politics is often the art of the bluff. and bannon is holding those and dotal cards right now. we'll see where we are seven or eight months into the primary season. >> we're almost at 11:30 where donald trump was attacked on the floor of the u.s. senate. twitter crickets so far. is that going to stay that way? >> i asked my colleagues today, and they said the president is following this tumult, but they say he's on the edge. this all comes on a day when he was trying to project public unity going on a rare visit to talk about tax cuts. now that whole project hangs on a precipice. the president knows if he goes to war in a really active way against flake it disrupts that aim and ambition for taxes. >> and mike, to put it in plain english every time you hear someone talking to constituents