Stewart, the fear that many people feel about what's going on around them is

understandable if you talk to them at a grocery store a gas station if you talk to

them you understand their fear it might be unreasonable but it's there. The fear that

politicians have for Donald Trump is something entirely different though.

What do you attribute that fear to? I think it's cowardness.

I think what we're seeing is that courage is contagious and cowardness is contagious.

And cowards love company.

If everybody is doing this, it must not be,

makes me look like a coward coward and how many people do we

know Mike that we know are good people that are in Senate and the House who you know they

all they had to do was get their calm shop to put out a statement saying

congratulating the president-elect the United States.

In the defensive democracy, that's a pretty low bar, right?

They're not charging a machine gun nest.

They're not like out my dad, three years fighting in the South Pacific.

And they failed that moment.

And once it became acceptable to do that, once you know, Miss McConnell doesn't direct the votes to convict him, but then

goes out and gives a speech why should have convicted him. There's just nothing there

in the party and I think it's going to be studied for a long time but we have to live in

the reality and I think that the reality is that this party isn't going to change

until they are defeated because fear as you know very well from all your days in politics is the best teacher

in politics and that's what's going to drive them.

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