crowd size, and he gave a big thumbs up in a photo with that baby whose parents were killed. >> agreed. i mean you have to put together what you can for these accomplishment lists. there's nothing new. joe and i are very practiced, i'm sure, at putting together talking points around these sorts of things whenever you need to. what i think that the president is most afraid of right now is an economic recession driven by a lack of confidence in the country. so i think, yes, absolutely joe is right. this was a reaction specifically to that "washington post" piece. but i think in a larger sense, the president, his white house aides have got to be concerned of a creeping sense of recession, of fear slipping into the electorate come this fall, and so they're doing everything they can to say, things are great. we could almost release the balloons now. and so this video -- and you've seen other things like it where he's trying to build up that confidence. >> let's look ahead to this week's democratic debate. we may be getting a preview of how the other candidates plan to take on the front-runner, joe