and is there a missing ingredient in the white house staff right now or in the white house thinking? dee dee myers was press secretary and head honcho for president bill clinton and still a close personal friend and andy card was chief of staff for president george w. bush. i want to make this completely positive. because i think it would be good for this president to get some things he doesn't seem to have right now, which is achievements. now, that's my view. and i don't think he's had them. so let's go with this, a couple of thoughts here. has -- i want to run three thoughts by you and let you take a few minutes to talk about all three of them. my hunch, he hasn't really laid before the american people a clear mission. in the campaign, he had a mission, i'm not george w. bush, i wouldn't have gone into iraq, and by the way, we need change in this country, and being an african-american, i can symbolize big change. right now, i'm not so sure. it seems like he's focused on health care. he doesn't connect so far with people with their economic problems, which are real. and he's given good speeches still. still giving great speeches. reagan came in and he had another advantage, reagan, besides everybody knew where he stood, discernment. the ability to decide not just what i want to do, but what i