from our esteemed colleague, pete wehner, i referenced this earlier, wrote in "the atlantic" today, a for violence," is the headline. "clearly at this early stage, the responsible reaction to what the fbi did is to withhold judgment, to wait and see, to base one's assessment on the facts and the evidence as they become known. but such an approach is alien to the modern day gop. the entire incentive structure is to use language that is intemperate, belligerent, conspiratorial, even crazed. this week has once again proved that there's no rhetorical line trump republicans won't cross, no outlandish charge they won't make. it's now all about one-upsmanship with each person trying to make a more freakish claim than the next." we are back with our panel and pete, i got to start with you. we were talking about this in the first hour. mike bender wrote a book about donald trump and his campaign in 2020. trump people think they're winning. it's not just that they -- that there's no limit and the incentive structure and all the things you say, all of which are true. it's that they think this ha