legitimate political discourse. so that's where the republican party is. you can count on one hand the number of republicans who have been willing to say the most basic thing and peninsula deserves a modicum of credit for doing it. we have to live by the constitution. the rest republican party, almost all of it, is a cult. >> so let's talk about the interview i just the with the german chancellor, who would not say clearly, definitively, if russia invades ukraine, the nord stream two pipeline from russia to germany will be dead. biden said i'll kill it. and scholz said we're goat this but he won't say it. why not? >> i think it is so interesting. he's a european -- a leader of a european nation that needs russia for so many things. you talk about the fuel and.