efforts hosting donors at the naval observatory where he lives, raising money for his pac, traveling to the first caucus state of iowa for a high-profile event with joni ernst, the senator there, it's all for helping the president, joni ernst, and he wanted the vice president to return the favor. pence has experience interfacing with these people which trump doesn't. the thing that really got the vice president and his team was the graph the "the times" telling donors and other keo fish -- key officials was really doing was preparing for himself and not trump. they have sources saying it's not true, insisting that it's solid. i ist. >> it's not the most effective way to make a story go away.