and are we going to see more of this from republicans in 2019? >> i think that is the prevailing question within republican circles, joe. i think what romney did was he finally put a crack in the waum that had been systemically built by grassroots activists, certainly in that cabinet room as you listen to the acting attorney general wax poetic about the president's behavior over the holidays, romney's op-ed, leading off the way he did before he takes the oath of office, i think sent a signal that there's a change coming in the way that this senate, with him in it, will respond to this president. i think mitch mcconnell notwithstanding, and that will be an interesting game of chess between the two of them, mcconnell commanding control of the senate caucus in terms of having a unified front on behalf