Leigh Ann Caldwell

And that's, like, another layer where the staffs, you know, everyone kind of got the joke.

And now...

For the most part, there are very few people who hang Republicans who hang out with Democrats and vice versa.

Yes, there are.

Yeah, yeah.

I think that there is a lot of generational component to that.

The people who have been there for a very long time still...

Yeah, totally.

And there's like the appropriators, you know, they have to work with each other, et cetera, but it's just, you know, January 6th did a lot, a lot of damage and it took years for it to kind of get back to a base level.

And then now it's,

It's just I think that the Congress story is, you know, how diminished of an institution will Congress be by the end of Trump's first term?

You know, I I always question what if Mike Johnson's legacy is, if that's what it's going to be, if he's just going to kind of hand over the keys to the Capitol, to the president.

Yeah, I think so.

I mean, especially how this Congress, this session of this Congress ended up.

And we're not done.

Like, I mean, this Congress, you know, this year of this Congress.

Yeah.

And the last week was tumultuous.

Yeah, he literally wrote the institution irrelevant.

And it I was shocked at the number of Republicans who were OK with it.