>> it's tuesday, february 20. in washington we have nbc news political reporter heidi przybyla, chief white house correspondent for the "new york times," peter baker, political reporter for the "washington post" and moderator of "washington week" on pbs, robert costa and the co-founder of axios, mike allen is with us as well. good to have you on board with us. >> peter, what do you make of the detente between utah and trump tower? >> well, there's not a lot of choice. mitt romney is going to win this race no matter what, he's going to sit in that seat and why alienate somebody from the start. there's so many more months ahead to alienate, why start off that why. >> and bob a lot of people were very cynical and snarky about mitt romney thanking the president for the endorsement but mitt romney was every bit as tough on the president as the president was on him. wherever somebody would endorse me that i had gone after aggressively, i put that down as