couldn't answer that question. i'm not suggesting that he wouldn't rule in a certain way. i'm just suggesting maybe he was afraid to offend donald trump the way that donald trump is offended by the last person he scene up to capitol hill. so, let's go to steve schmidt. steve, you talked about alito, you talked about roberts, you talked about how they went through. it takes us back to a simpler time when you were a republican and, you know -- >> you were a republican. >> when you were a republican and a lot of us were republican, and what i noticed this weekend was you not only had ben sasse i think about being an independent every day which would have been unthinkable a couple of years for him to say. david french a respected voice with "the national review" said