his message on the road, which is pretty customary. there is no reason he still couldn't do that, and i wonder if the president feels -- he sees these polls and he feels his message may not be popular right now. >> if you look, his oval office address and his saturday address, his numbers kept going down. >> i wonder if that's at the root of this. >> i think also there really isn't acknowledgment of the president and people around him of the ceremony of doing the speech in a traditional way. i know they were looking at options to do something else, go to a border recognition. >> the president is going this way right now. at the end of this, he's going to need something to try to go back up. you would think that would be a platform he would want. we know the president pays attention much more than he pays attention to the base out in the country which tends to follow