it was by us working together, johnny isakson, we worked together. or mike crapo, from our neighbor state of idaho, working with him, we get things done. leadership isn't about being an echo. leadership is about leading. and part of leading is working with people on issues of common good. and i will tell you as i walk around, there's democrats, there's republicans, libertarian, we agree on a heck of a lot more than we disagree on. find the areas you agree on and work on them. let the areas that -- this is what johnny and i did. if we disagreed, we put it in the cls et. at the end of the day, there was nothing in the closet. we can do that in washington, d.c. >> some voters ea cross the country were considering this a referendum on president trump. do you think that's a fair statement, knowing that the republicans still have control of the senate? >> i am not a political analyst and i will tell you i've done this three times now, we've called each of these races at about 11:00 a.m. in the morning and that's all i know. >> how does that strengthen the