but of course as most things still do in the republican party things revolve around the former president, donald trump. of course he has a big announcement on tuesday. i'm told kevin mccarthy still speaks very regularly to the former president. he has over the weekend as wem. we will see if any signal from that are coming. he had a narrow shot at the speakership several years ago, did not get that. certainly on the house and senate side this week big election leadership elections, so we do not know, of course, how this is going to play. but he's just trying to keep his base happy and all these questions at bay. >> one of the things these hard liners want is the right to depose their speaker, vote him out. of course mccarthy doesn't want to hand them that power, but does he have any choice? >> we'll see. that's one of the concessions