walk back from their four-pillar plan they have out there. what's going to change where the president is right now? the key point here is for anything the senate moves on to have any future in the house, the president doesn't just have to say, okay, the president has to get behind it and push it. short of that, there's no clear pathway right now, which means right now there's more questions than there are answers, john. >> and quickly, phil, on this question, forget the hundred senators for a minute. think about the eight or ten democrats who might be in peril in this election year. do they sense a bit of a trap, that the republicans are going to try to get them to vote, cast some votes on some amendments that might show up in campaign ads? >> yeah, they don't sense it, they know it. there's already a vote that's out there right now from senator pat toomey related to sanctuary cities. you have a couple democrats in a tough spot with the president's poez because it addresses daca and because it addresses border security, family migration, those types of things. you're going to see those senators face very, very difficult votes at this point and sometime soon. nobody likes this debate, and that crew of ten senators know