american people why they ought to have confidence in him and his administration. it's an uphill fight he's been fighting all along against right wing media and republicans and wants to try to shift that narrative. is this the way to do it? i think he's always prided himself on being a glad handy person of the people who can go out and have these conversations with everyday voters. that's what he's trying to leverage now. but it's an uphill fight. this is already promising to be a very, very, very difficult year for his party. and i am not sure that there's really a lot that he can do between now and november to scale that back. a lot of outside circumstances are what's going to have to change that he may not have much control over. >> two of our favorites, philip bump and ayesha, thank you. tune in sunday on "state of the union" with antony blinken and joni bernst and bernie sanders. coming up, the proposal