ourd: craig gordon, washington bureau chief.et's go to someone who knows the republicans fairly well, rick davis, our political contributor who ran john mccain's campaign. how do you put the republican party back together? we saw even the debate in the senate, it was republican against republican with mitch mcconnell against ted cruz. ack: one thing that needs clear distinction is this is a donald trump-inspired protest, both inside and outside the capitol. ted cruz is not speaking for the republican party when he protests the electors, he is speaking for donald trump. the protesters on and in the ourtol are not violating institutions because they are good standing republicans who support everyone on the ticket, it is because they are trump supporters. in essence trump encouraged to hem to do what they did this morning when he met with this crowd in front of the white house. if you read mitch mcconnell's remarks where he first introduced the senate deliberation on the discussion around the arizona electors, he theclear, it was a