joining me now to discuss is matthew dowd a former advisor to george w. bush and the author of the new book revelations on the river. thank you for joining us. i don't know why we care what donald trump says. anyways. good evening. i mean, seriously. if he said something positive about something that actually made sense, then that would be news. but that he said something toxic and ignorant is certainly not news after all these years. >> he's consistent. he's consistent. >> he's consistently ignorignor. so ctrump didn't drain the swam. he made it radio active, no? >> oh, well, absolutely. he made it radio active for the republican party but i think the republican party there was radiation fermenting before donald trump showed up which is why the got dzilla emerged from the swamp and tried to destroy