circus was watched by most of the american people and now we are going to see them do it again to jinae risk of energizing the republican base, bear in mind that's the big issue in midterms elections and the democrats have been trying to tamp that down but now with nominations, i think they will bring the republicans out. paul: kim, briefly though, tester might have understood what he was doing, taking a risk and probably needed to gin up his own base, how do you think it plays out in election? >> that's a problem that every single one of the red-state democrats faces is that the energy in their party right now is all from the progressive left and their main rallying cry is do not allow trump to have a functioning government, do not confirm any of these people, this is our standard and what we are going to judge you by and so tester and others feel pressures to block the nominations, problem is they live in a state where, you know, the vast majority voted for trump and if the republicans can energize their side on it, they might have the greater argument in the end. paul: all right, ka