damning piece of evidence might come out. and over the last several months, a lot of more and more damning stuff has come out. you know, things that trump thought was going to exonerate him, including the rough transcript. did not arguably. and republicans are having to sort of reentrench themselves and further commit themselves to defending whatever it is he does. and the second consequence of that is related, which is that you are emboldening trump to potentially have more shoes drop, right? if he feels like come hell or high water, come hell or high crimes, that republicans will, you know, stand by him, will prove their unconditional love and loyalty, then why not shoot someone on fifth avenue effectively, or why not enlist another foreign country to help him the next election? and i think those are sort of the unknown unknowns at this point for the republican party. >> so practical -- let me bounce to the philosophical, then we're going to come back to the practical. philosophical, chance that