Jeff Flake: “This gives voice to Saint Augustine's lament: Give me sobriety, but not yet.”

They have also pushed back in a number of areas as well. Crimea, been consistent in saying that that is part of Ukraine territory.

No doubt. No doubt. The president has particular, you know, sway over Republican voters, that subset of a subset that controls primaries.

It has, and that's the tragic legacy of the Trump years, the normalization of -- I mean, accepting of falsehoods, trafficking in conspiracy theories.

If you just dismiss all of that and just talk politics, at some point here soon, Republicans are going to have to decide whether or not they want to be tethered to the president politically.