begala, as i travel and we travel across america and talk to voters, do you believe the president is working on the assumption that while the white house gets their ducks in order, eventually they'll need to answer this, that it's only the media that cares about it, the voters don't care at all, therefore he thinks he can literally not even say "no comment"? >> i think you're right, poppy, that's probably his operating assumption. that may hold for a while. certainly trump voters or maybe i would say about half of trump voters are the way mr. trump described them. he could shoot a guy on fifth avenue and not lose any votes. we all remember dick cheney did shoot a guy in the face and it didn't hurt him. that's not enough to keep house and senate majorities for the republicans. first, it hurts our national security. but when you get reporting like cnn has, that his campaign aides were in, in the words of the cnn report, "constant contact with the russians" during the