him, john? >> we shouldn't take him seriously, at all. he's delusional. i mean, this is a guy, who is insisting on -- on re-creating the ecmperor's new clothes, evey day. in the service of his own towering, yet fragile, ego, he is willing to try to undermine our democracy. what we should take seriously, though, is the people trying to coddle his crazy, for political gain. republicans, who are willing to go along with this insanity. because they're afraid to confront the base, because they're afraid to confront him. because, what they're saying is, they're willing to -- they hate democrats, more than they love our democracy. they're willing to indulge these pathological fantasies, and pretend they're ideas. they're not. and -- and that's what we've got to take seriously, as hell. >> anna, dana bash is reporting that a former adviser to trump says that he is listening to the bottom of the bottom of the crazies in the barrel. i mean, trump disciples, like michael flynn, sydney powell,