walking a difficult line, but playing a dangerous game. you can't placate crazy. you can't placate donald trump. we talked about mark meadows earlier. he was floating the idea which i think is nonsense, but technically possible. donald trump could be speaker. i don't think there is the willingness or the aptitude. it goes to show, kevin mccarthy can genuflect and kiss the ring at mar-a-lago all he wants, but he's never going to actually get the support from folks who love donald trump. he's had the temerity to criticize him at times. >> you have many democratic lawmakers calling for lauren boebert to be penalized including stripped of her committee assign mentes, a new weapon in all of this. is this a new cycle that we should expect on the hill and democrats face their own risk if republicans win back the house of having the same thing done to them. >> yeah. look, i think it is a huge mistake to make more -- to play the moral equivalence game as