than they were directed at the male anchor, joe. and we've seen a pattern of the president doing this over and over again, of criticizing women for their looks. we saw him do it to carly fiorino, to the wife of senator ted cruz. we saw him make lewd sort of crass comments about megyn kelly and lewd comments about women in his past that came to haunt him on the campaign trail, so i think that's the other reason you're seeing this very incredible and sort of swift backlash is because people don't just see it in the context of the president's relationship with these two cable news hosts and what he said right now. they see it in the broader con tecklenbu -- context of things he has said about people in the past. >> s.e. cupp, i think about -- you hear sarah huckabee sanders saying, people elected a fighter. somebody's going to fight, he's going to fight back and a lot of people in his base love, love that he is waging this war with the media.