rodriguez in alabama. thank you. let's bring in our reporters and mark stern. good afternoon to all three of you. and i'm going to start with you, andrew, on this. are the numbers real in this polling? mable folks aren't saying what they think. >> yeah, certainly. ray moore isn't going anywhere. if we know anything from his career in public life, he's defiant and not going to back down to this sort of political pressure t senate republicans are actively searching for a viable write in challenger. key word is viable. because if you split up the republican vote in a way that ray moore gets 30% and republican challenger gets less than 20%, handing the election to doug jones democrat. that's not something republicans want save for maybe flake, he told me he would choose any democrat over ray moore. that's the poll numbers you are seeing out of alabama reflecting. >> republicans endorsing the democrat candidate certainly at a water shed moment. i want to bring up another head line from "washington post" and this is to you, eric. this is from friday. it says bannon's season of war on our establishment may backfire with first battle. i'll pul