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Mayorkas. it is something that voters care about and they'll have to deal with before 2024. >> republican senator mitt romney is surging fellow republicans to focus in on the economy, for example, and not necessarily these investigations that the new house republican leadership clearly wants to do. do you think this is a miscalculation by the new republican leadership. house? >> i think what you're hearing from republicans right now is the plan they thought they would have in place if they had a huge wave that validated their desire to go after some of these base plays. what romney is saying i...

Seat se seated. this is so bad for the republican party on some fronts. i wonder if mitch mcconnell and other republican leaders are thinking the best thing that could happen is a democrat could win the alabama race. >> this is the worst lose/lose n scenario for them. whether moore wins or loses, it's a loss for the gop across the board. it's a loss if he wins. because now we have brought to our table an alleged pedophile and someone in which nine women before he got to the senate staked a claim against his candidacy in this person. it's a loss for the party, certainly, if he loses because the...

Stand above the fray? >> well, mike pence since becoming vice president has been nothing if not an extreme loyalist to the president. so clearly going along with what the president wanted him do here, and with the polling that we've seen on the president's approval rating lastly, he often responds to that with these kind of base plays, doing these things that his base might like. so whatever the country as a whole mits think of the nfl protests that the president and vice president are engaged in, the white house clearly thinks that it plays well to the base and as peter noted a few minutes ag...