fallback candidate. conservatives are pushing back hard. talked favorably raising carbon taxes in in favor legalizing undocumented and don't want him chief of staff. what does the president do? let this keep twisting in the wind? >> it's possible, we've seen it before. this could sort of be another moment where we all think this is going to happen and it doesn't. it does feel like this is a little different, but the problem is, as you pointed out, the language isn't really the problem. i mean, senator mccain has salty language. a lot of politicians we've covered talk that way. certainly had that in background conversations. the problem is the actual dysfunction. this white house doesn't run the processes that have to run to get stuff done. whether national security process, to respond to north korea. whether it's domestic -- a domestic, you know, step by step organizing your white house to get something done. and sort of the language that