As to Chris's point, that's his boy.

Well, he is not their perfect fit.

But I think that when they looked at him, they said, he's as good probably with this group of cardinals that we're going to get.

So I don't think they were, you know, opposed to him.

I think that they thought Leo will be somebody that we can hopefully work with

in their minds in the future going forward.

But the point Chris made is so important, which is if you think of where he came from,

he came from the south side of Chicago, the working class part of Chicago.

He's part of the Augustinians, a group that looks out for those who are struggling, looks out for

those who are challenged. And so so much of Francis DNA is present in this Pope as well. And this,

and Francis loved Pope Leo they they got along

fabulously well and he always knew he could count on Pope Leo to do his job well and now on

tax cuts uh you have Steve Bannon and the Matt and many of the Magibase talking about taxing the rich.

Why? Because they're populists.

They're like billionaires don't need more tax cuts.

But that is exactly why billionaires wrote massive checks to Donald Trump.

And that has been the operating theory.

So I set all that up to say,

the Democrats playbook, certainly since I was in Congress, is those Republicans, they want to cut

Medicaid, they want to cut Medicare, they want to cut Social Security for their tax cuts for the rich.

That's always a punchline for good reason, because what they have done has been specifically to help the richest Americans.

And in this case, though, imagine what happens if Donald Trump does something that the Democratic Ways and Means

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