trubowitz: why not? but over several months.ere to push something like that, it would tie his own hands as well and it would be more credible at any rate, and something that he might be able to push through congress. i think a lot will depend on what happens on january 5. if biden i think that were to push something, some set of proposals that he had to live by, it makes it more credible. i think everybody realizes that what is going ryan -- going on right now is beyond the pale. the: there is a question of isolation of the current president, not only in general, from the democrats and congress, but republican leadership, as he vetoed the defense bill and is threatening to veto the fiscal support package that we had passed by senate and house earlier this week. what does that tell you, how significant is the fisher between president trump and the republican leadership? prof. trubowitz: i think it is significant. puts a lot of republicans in a pickle. the view on the defense bill certainly does that, because they are facing that