kim and new york magazine. we talked about a bill the senate faced this week, a tough choice where patrick leahy offered an amendmentmigration reform bill. it would grant the same rights to gay couples as straight couples had. chuck schumer, who is at the art of crafting this gang of 8 compromise kind of led the way. diane feinstein joined him. al franken also chimed in where they were making the case, if you support immigration reform, you can't have immigration reform without that. in watching that kind of choreography, it struck me how that gang of coalition on both sides has really stuck together. you've had republicans who are trying to peel off marco rubio and trying to offer ways to get him off of it and he's fought them off, and here you have democrats basically doing the same to their base. >> yeah, i think it was watching the -- i mean, there were points at which senator graham was saying, senator flake was saying, look, we've taken it from our side on some of our amendments and we've stuck with you, which i think was sort of a key note that, like, as these votes come up tonight, you better stay up with us