hangs in the balance. they're going to have to decide and we're going to find out was this week that jeff flake generated and chris coons was this a fig leaf for them or was this a serious effort on their part. >> look, they have the power. if those three senators say we are not ready yet, we want more, they can say that and then they will delay it another week. i doubt that will happen. jeff flake seems pretty clear that he wants this to be a week and susan collins and louis is a murkowski seem clear that they want a finite period of time here. they are the ones with the ho power. >> i think mcconnell is asserting -- >> they haven't fought back and said, listen, leader -- >> listen, i think the other point to be made is we get caught up in a lot of the legalities here. this is a political decision pure and simple. everyone is playing politics. i think what the country is struggling with is, you know, a lot of this stuff if it came from a politician, this sort of looseness with the truth, this sort of shading the truth, they