where republican members were able to vent or express their own anxieties and were able to deal with it amongst themselves -- >> in the room. >> -- keeping it in the room. >> i remember that day when the members were going off on the mini retreat and they were not allowed to bring copies of what they were seeing back to study. it's much like some classified briefing. i think it was a smart tactic. obviously what we are seeing is they learned from the failure of the obamacare repeal and replace, and learning from your mistakes is a good thing. let's give them credit for that. basically there were nine tax reform bills that were, you know, put together a million years ago. they knew exactly what they wanted to do and some things were more politically palatable and some would not survive. there were a lot of sacred cows. they had a lot of virgins but