Chuck Todd

But I am, you know, look, I think this is going to be.

And I've always you know, there's a pretty good correlation if you study this via data where the party that has the fewest empty ballot slots is usually the party that's going to win that cycle.

It's probably going to be swift justice, but it's a version of sweeping all this under the rug all at the same time, rather than maybe having a better.

Come to come to you know what moment.

where you say, you know, how do we demand a better quality of behavior?

How do we draw some better lines?

And how do we root this stuff out sooner?

And how do we, but it's, and sometimes it's just the nature of the beast.

And we know we've lived with politicians like this for this long.

And part of it is, are we going to hold, is Congress going to hold individual members of Congress to a higher bar than they hold the president of the United States?

Right.

That's the uncomfortable shadow that hangs over all of this, folks.

Right.

I mean, think about it.

Every single accusation against Mills, against Gonzalez, against Swalwell and against and even on the funding stuff against.

Sure, Phyllis McCormick, all of it.

There are accusations against Donald Trump for versions of this, whether it's essentially using government money, using power to enrich himself.

That's basically been the second term.

That's also some a part of this that's just like the like I said, just hovers over all of this.

The real question is, does this have a. I think this ends up, you know, sort of if it's possible to lower the approval rating of Congress generically overall, it will.