have said to him this was a problem, why this was a problem. but it often involves kind of walking him, at least in part, through how he sees the landscape, not the landscape as it actually is. i don't think -- i think he still doesn't entirely understand the problem with what he did. i don't think he understands the problem with standing on a stage with vladimir putin and blaming the u.s. the people who i do think understand that are voters. and i've been a little perplexed in the criticism that you have seen of what he did, you have had more people talking about -- that includes democrats that he appeared to be condoning or equalizing or normalizing vladimir putin as opposed to the fact that he turned around and blamed his own country for how it behaved. that seems like voters in the fall could understand. >> i wanted to come in and apologize. >> i did want to apologize. >> i don't remember. >> you look at the polling out and the president's approval rating ticked up a point after the russia thing in june. you look at the approval rating