own achievements, when the gdp and unemployment rate and job creation, rising wages alone, any one of those things would be the basis for insufferable chest pounding for a republican president who was claiming credit for it. and democrats just aren't wired to do it. i just -- it takes a sort of -- it takes a sort of political personality to do it. and president biden had those notes today to do that kind of bragging. but he's more of an empathizer than a braggart. >> the other piece of advice i know he's received is to stop treating the pandemic like a problem he has to solve. to say it's endemic, we're going to live with it. he wants to fix it, he wants to end it. i spoke to an official today, who said, sure, we can make it