dp groups or public groups i'm often asked these cable folks and the talk radio hosts, do they mean what they say? now i'm looking at those texts versus the way this has been handled thereafter. what would your answer to that question be? >> so here's the deal. what they were doing that night and thereafter was spinning for republicans, right? they were saying, oh, well, maybe it was antifa. actually, the election was a mess. and then eventually we would end one patriot purge stuff that tucker carlson did and all of these things. on the one hand you could say they were functioning as an arm of the republican party. but what you could really say is that what they're advising for the republican party isn't even good for republicans. the right thing for republicans to have done on january 6th was to take a step back. uh-oh, what did we do? this got way out of hand, but that's not good for tv. that's not good for revenue. if you say to people things have gotten out of hand here, we need to reassess what wae're doing. we need to look at our part of