given how united the assem bree was against him. >> his career was either perm minutely over or permanently over and he chose the path of permanently over. right? the resignation gives him, we know the way our world works. it's amazing. the people we've seen make political comebacks. you can't ever rule it out, and i think he realized he could become a pariah in the democratic party for sticking it out and fighting or he can -- not saying he will generate good will, but there are state s assembly members that didn't want to go through this process, didn't want to have to go through this. there are a lot of congressional democrats that are glad he did this. he eventually did something that