ticket items heading into the mid terms. you heard it almost repeated nonstop. i think the president even mentioned this at his rallies, caravan and kavanaugh. they want to run on both of those things. but unless you're really isolated inside an ideological bubble on this issue of immigration, you really can't see this caravan as anything other than a lot of people, a lot of migrants trying to escape countries where in some cases they're escaping from violence and that you have a lot of women and children trying to come into this country and seek asylum to try to find a better life for themselves. at this point the president is saying that's not going to happen and he's trying to offer the show of force. one other thing we should mention, anderson, the secretary of defense jim mattis had a rare public appearance. he was appearing at the u.s. institute of peace here in washington. he was asked a whole range of questions on a slew of issues from syria to russia and everything else. he wasn't asked a question about this issue. it doesn't sound very pressing