for more on the republicans, we want to bring in bracewell principal liam donovan. k you so much. couple days after the election, people were saying that it wasn't a bad night for republicans, all things considered. but the donald trump approval ratings collapsing over the past couple weeks, lots of soul-searching, mcconnell calling out the president and saying it was the lies of the president and his allies that caused the insurrection at the capital. is there a path back for the old, pre-trump republicans? liam: yeah, it has been a rough path these past two months. people were already waiting in october to turn the page and think about what the party looked like without rump. and on that first tuesday in november, trump reaffirmed his grip on his party. the idea of him going away seems unthinkable, two months later, after a rocky bout of a lot of lies, a couple lost elections and one capital riot later and we are back to taking about how this party begins to navigate away from a guy who is appearing he is going to haunt them from some time -- for some time. he is w