interesting statement and the fact that the speaker of the house doesn't stand up in between that trolling, doesn't try to make it stop, is also interesting and, again, congressman, you quit, you retired from congress right now. do you feel that republican there is and the speaker of the house have abdicated a certain responsibility? >> john, we're in a period not so much of separation of powers but of parties and probably the greatest regret i have that and that my republican colleagues will have after the november election is that we didn't reassert our article one powers. when the president does things on trade that we find so objectionable we should pass legislation, do hearings and reclaim our authority. don't let him enact tariffs without congressional approval. under so many other areas where we should be pushing back much more forcefully and strongly than we have on nato other areas. i can think of a numbers of areas where we should have been