>> optimism, huh? >> it's allowed. we can have it. >> so before the president goes to asia, he said he's going to make a decision about who the fed chair is going to be, and it's reported that he is leaning toward the more conservative choices in either john taylor or jerome powell. but janette yellen, the current fed chair, is not out of the running yet. she has some bipartisan support. and recently the president has bragged a lot about how strong the stock markets are, we see him tweet about that frequently and sort of saying, look, you don't want to change course right now, a change of course or a change of the top of the fed could have a negative impact on markets and you wouldn't be able to brag about that anymore. really, no one knows what he's going to do until he does it with, but janet yellen is out of the running yet. >> doesn't get enough attention. i'll close with this. the official line from george w. bush's aides after his big speech this past week was is that it was no big deal. that all its themes were topics