and he is doing some preparing of his own, so walk me through it? >> well, there is the performance preparation, and the policy and the message preparation. i was at the breakfast that he held for television news reporters and anchors who are going to be covering this tonight, and he was joking that his wife, jana, warned him that he is going to be in the picture a lot because he is the speaker of the house, and by tradition, he is sitting behind the president, and so he is pr practicing the poker face, and he is an irish guy who likes to express himself with his face, but he can't do that tonight. and he talked about, ashleigh, the expectation, as you can imagine, this is is the republican speaker of the house, and he said sort of the headline was that he anticipates that the president will give a glossy view of the past seven years and not unlike what he perceives barack obama told matt lauer and he thinks that he is going to continue to set up what ryan called the strawmen to make republicans from his perspective look like angry reactionaries