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>> in theory, yes. in practice, it is very difficult to do. one of the things that we've seen, not just this year, but in past years, is that the struggle that republicans have, i worked on this in 2012 to 2014, where we had trouble even putting language together to present to members. the these pendulum politics of where we put some provisions to make the right happy and thing swing back to the moderates and these pendulums going back and forth essentially turns into a sword of damacles. >> it seems mitch mcconnell has swung more to the right, he included the cruz amendment. does that surpris...

Doug, you said the only thing worse than pulling a bill is having it go down in the vote. >> yeah. this may be a brave new world we're in with donald trump as president because it's the only new dynamic of what we've seen. i worked in the house republican leadership for two and a half years. what we saw time and time again, bring up a bill on something controversy or a must pass bill, say the bush tax cuts expiring, shutting down the government, opening the government. the time dana bash calls and you don't answer because you don't have a good answer. this is where republicans are and where we...