things, sure. >> he's comfortable at it. that's where he's at his best. that's peak donald trump but here we are, we're barely talking about that rally anymore because there's no cohesive strategy to follow it up. it seems like a lot of his proposals are riffs without follow-ups. and the big ticket items, tax reform, health care reform, are imperilled because there isn't a driving strategy from the white house either so there are multiple problems, communication and substantive and obviously an investigation that is going to loom over him for months. >> i should also mention, and you know, the president had said by the end of this week and part of the reason, this is according to someone close to him that the deadline for him to release, if there are tapes, release any of the tapes to congress is tomorrow and so this source said the president knew he needed to come clean. so that's that. what about you have adam schiff, you know, ranking democrat on that committee, saying, "i don't intend to take this" this being the no tapes bit, "as the last word." so for democrats, david