apparatus that they can refer questions to. that's the best way to handle it. we may not like it. we may not like the idea that press briefings be curtailed or we'll have less access but the truth is that's the scenario that the white house will play best if they can only get -- the one thing they should start doing as of tuesday morning, be boring. >> right. >> stop tweeting, stop reacting. stop taking these things head on. compartmentalize its. put it somewhere else. >> it seems like there's been a little bit of a shift, jay. the president has not answered any questions on his foreign trip. we've learned the president canceled a rally in iowa for next week. should the president speak to the public about the growing russia controversy or is it in his best interest to be silent? >> every republican i've spoken to has said that the twitter is