we hold them accountable every day. we hold them accountable in every district. we took that fight to new york 26 and we won and medicare won. >> now, did kathy hochul, who just won the race up there, she's the congresswoman-elect now, did she do what you told her to do? is this, in other words, a template, a role model, for what you could do in winning back, say 25 seats next year, 24 seats enough to get control of the house again? >> she didn't do what we told her to do. she did what she wanted to do one of the reasons she got into this race is she couldn't stomach these republican plans to terminate medicare while getting tax cut to the richest oil companies. that's one reason she got in this race. from day one, she defined herself as an independent democrat who would vote against this medicare scheme, this's why she won. and i will say one other thing, she won not by attracting just democrat ecvotes. she won independents, and she got so many republican votes. so this is this is a really good