didn't want to weigh in because of his friendship with lincoln chafe. but it's not unprecedented and not as if the dny is not giving caprio and the democratic ticket a ton of support, organizationally, as well as financially and frankly caprio could point to that as being tantamount to support of the white house. bill: would he dare not endorse if he thought it would help him? >> you'd have to ask bill clinton that. you never know what somebody is going to do or not do. but i take the president at his word. he's got a relationship with chaffee, it doesn't mean he wasn't down campaigning for the democratic ticket, which is exactly what he was doing, and capirio could have pointed -- >> bill: maria, maria, maria! rick tyler, respond to this, do you buy that? >> i believe everything maria says! look, when rhode island becomes a fire wall for the democratic party i think that's indicative of what's going to happen on tuesday, and look, doing dumb political things is