host of the fast politics podcast molly jonfast. she's also an msnbc political analyst. i mean, let me just set you up here to talk about this display of sycophants. and we also had matt gaetz quoting what donald trump said to the proud boys in that debate, stand back, standby in his -- in a tweet where he basically said -- look, there it is. standing back and standing by, mr. president, says matt gates as he's standing behind mr. trump outside the trial. >> you know, all of that was incredible. and i want to say if you look at nancy pelosi, i want to harken back to when the house was normal -- nancy pelosi would never have let that happen because it puts the entire house majority, the one or two-seat majority depending how you count it in jeopardy. watching this was such a display yet yesterday was freedom caucus day at the trump trial, and that was the freedom caucus crew. we had the speaker of the house this week. i mean it just is -- what it does -- and again, we don't know but the downstream consequences of this, right, i mean democrats could run on this. house demo