two democrats not committing and they are in red states, there's two different races in the midterm. there's the senate landscape, there's the house landscape, which are very different and tilted differently. how, as someone that knows the republican mind, how does the republican play this where they can try to hold the senate, even if they lose the house? people who act like this is one thing. this is a two-tier political midterm with different factors. >> that's right. what they are trying to do is, remember the first week after dr. ford's allegations came out, for their side, they were relatively restrained. then they made a decision because the christian right was threatening to sit out the midterm. they were unhappy. they went all in, doubled down. you saw right wing media go out