I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd cast.

Republicans say the least are in a transition.

Probably the polite way to put it on the one hand.

They're in disarray over whether they should reject the Donald Trump brand of politics

after he lost an election, incited a riot, and then slinked away from Washington.

Or should they embrace the pieces of Trumpism that worked well enough for them and dam

the consequences?

Meanwhile, Senate Republicans are once again showing their mastery of sorts of power politics

and a minority leader Mitch McConnell.

Continues to find ways to extract a price from Senate Democrats, dragging out negotiations

over power sharing, eating away precious time in a calendar time and a new administration,

delay and divide, delay and divide.

That's what a minority leader does, attempts to do, and then if you look at McConnell's

strategy, that's what he is doing.

But he's also finding ways to undermine Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer when it comes

to the future of the filibuster.

But the Trump question isn't going away.

On Tuesday, Senator Randolph forced a vote on the constitutionality of convicting a former

president of impeachable crimes, 45 senators loaded in support of Trump, showing what we

all suspect it.

For a lot of reasons, there are a few Senate Republicans who are willing to publicly take

a stand against the president and hold him accountable.

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