not alone. we've been chronicling the tea party and the split between the so-called, you know, republican establishments, and now you have the trump thing. there's been so much effort and energy focused on the problems on the right, and i think that there really is something happening on the republican side, but we've mostly ignored the skichisms and the cleavagesn the left and whether that's the rise of the burdeernie sanders elizabeth warren, and you have democrats basically caving into pressure and worried about losing elections and now you have the liberal base very upset with people like chuck schumer calling them sellouts. this is an underrated story, but the democrats as they seek to win the midterms this is going to be a subplot we really should be paying attention to. >> so let's switch gears to what's going on with the axios reporting, patrick, that the attorney general jeff sessions had been earn frpressuring the