narrative. he wants the wiggle room before it starts. he wants to be able to say i told you this. if you hear this today don't believe it. it's the democrats. he's always trying to set up his own defense. >> not tweeting about what could be a win for him. he could have tweeted something pretty bland. >> we're getting health care in order. could have said a lot of things. >> things are progressing well in health care. he could have said that. we lost a great journalist over the weekend. i was reading about him last night. let's pull him up on the screen. at one point he said rage is the only quality that kept me or anybody i ever studied writing columns for newspapers. and perhaps this lesson of you could only give people the lesson of how to climb stairs because there's no stories on the first floor. anything you're looking for is four to five flights up.