>> a lot of them are hurting now and i get it and you know i did 133 events for them. i believe the congress in the last two years did a far better job than the american people thought they did at least the american people who voted in the midterms and i went to extraordinary efforts to try to explain what i thought had been done in the ways they thought were most favorable to them. but we had an election. the results are what they are. the numbers will only get worse in january in terms of negotiating. >> you know it used to be working in politics that anybody was out of the business for a few months or a couple of years and certainly the ten years he's been out, couldn't write his speech, couldn't keep up with where here's ago. is totally in tune. it's like he never left the music. he's there right at the cut. >> well, he's been in the middle of it. and look, part of it, i think at first he stayed in the middle of it. you know, because it was motivating, to try to help hillary clinton's political career and he was her chief sort of adviser. but he came in and says you know i spent an hour and a day studying this economy. >> i believe him.