yamiche: there were also a couple of those people he held on to -- brett mckirk in particular but also adam zubin, treasury official, who republicans held up for a long time, is deep in the president obama's iran deal so you can see they need to get up to speed on this thing. you talked about the idea of not having the grace period. i was talking to one protester who was undocumented and he said there's no time for a grace period. i want him to know that we will not be attacked, this is our stance. that struck me because these young people were saying, i want it to be very clear that i'm going to be the thorn on your side and you should be thinking about me. the idea that they were blocking the entrance of the inauguration -- these were not protestors that were going to go into a park and be seen on twitter. these were people in the faces of trump supporters and making them uncomfortable. ed: you covered sanders, you covered the clinton campaign. i'm struck by the fact that eight years ago tonight opposition republicans got together at the capital grill downtown and started plotting ho