statements and comments, and actually confront him in any real way? >> that is a defining if not the defining question about the political fallout. my question is the sense he was a candidate, not excusing it, the candidate then. he's the president now. a national tragedy. people expected him to be all americans' president. not a republican president. not a trump-base president, bull all of america's president. the fact susan bro won't even take his phone call puts up a road block to one of the ways he could try to put this behind him. whether you agree or disagree with what he said tuesday, that angry press conference in trump tower. could have arranged this weekend, next week, a phone call, white house meeting could, have been a page turner. looks like that option is gone. >> and a measure of the adage of too late. perhaps taken a different stance at the outset even as late as monday it would have been a different story and she would be month willing to pick up that phone and now is not.