base. the president has shown he would rather frighten his fellow americans and degrade the nation standing in the world than admit he is mistaken. j.d., is president trump reflecting the fears of his voters or creating them? >> well, i think it is tough to say. obviously, people follow their political leaders. so in some ways, the president is creating the narrative, but it is definitely the case that he's also responding and as an instinct view of what his base is feeling. when you look at the polls and the response the folks have had to the reaction of what happened in charlottesville, i was critical to the president. i thought he could have done more to unite the country. but if you holook at how peoplen the ground felt, there was a massive wedge between how the media and folks were perceiving the problem and on the other hand how his base was perceiving the particular reaction to charlottesville. so in some ways i saw it as