daniella gibbs leger, robert traynham, assistant dean at georgetown university and former deputy chiefor rick santorum. good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> daniella, does this sound like what's been said about john boehner and the right wing of the gop in the house? are we seeing the impact essentially of all these new folks coming in who used to be back in the day, when you were new, you just sort of sat back and kept quiet and learned things. now they're wielding huge influence? >> i don't think that's a fair comparison at all. i mean i think what you see in the senate is not that the new democrats are wielding some sort of outsized power, it's that they see what's happening in the senate, that it's becoming a more dysfunctional body because of the republicans. if you look at the number of people who have been filibustered throughout history, half of them have occurred under this president. how is that sustainable? how is that our democracy working? and i think harry reid was -- he was a reluctant warrior but he felt like he had to do this. i'm sure there are a lot of democrats