now jake, i m told from people in the room the president rifted for 45 minutes making a couple of jokes and one senate said it is as buoyant as he d ever seen the president, talking about the mid-term elections and about getting the places like west virginia and indiana and making a joke that his wife poll numbers are hopeful she doesn t run against him but the republican senators have been repeatingly telling us they had problem but the confrontation behind closed doors simply wasn t in the cards, jake. thank you so much. phil mattingly on capitol hill. the panel joins me now. republicans have been talking quite a bit about their concern about letting zte into the united states, and cyber espionage concerns about the chinese and the fact that a white house aide made fun of their colleague dyeing. are you surprised they said this in front of cameras and behind closed doors wouldn t bring it up. i m surprised. you give the president space of