they lose the senate. and what clinton was able to do, very smartly, was he was picking his spots. he reached historic compromises with the republicans on subjects, declared the era of big government was over but fought them on others. one way he fought them and won was on newt gingrich's government shutdown because it turns out americans don't like seeing hundreds of thousands of people being -- >> it was extraordinarily strategic but i don't think this president has any strategy. there's no strategy other than i'm going to fight, fight, fight, fight and it's not necessarily because he doesn't have advisers who are trying to develop strategy. he doesn't listen to anybody. he is his own best adviser. that briefing that the white house scheduled all of a sudden is now over. the president didn't take any questions from reporters. first time in the briefing room, where the reporters are, and the president didn't take a single question. >> to your point, he likes to fight. he likes having a foil. and that's why it's going to be interesting to see how he and nancy, speaker pelosi do.