attacked, was the redistricting process taking place in pennsylvania right now. >> absolutely. that redistricting process in pennsylvania some say might very well cost the republicans the house. this is a very big set of decisions. it's taking place in different parts of the country to overturn the redistricting that took place really in 2011, which locked in a lot of the republican majority so it's a very big story. but this is about also perception. i think republicans are fighting tooth and nail, not because -- they know they won't have the seat necessarily, but they don't want to look like this is moving toward a wave election, and i think that's what you're seeing. it's about perception and that's something that the president understands. >> i'm interested, tim, in your analysis of how the president handled these big policy issues that he's been dealing with. he talked about north korea. there was one point he talked about kim jong-un and the crowd booed and he pushed them off that and said, no, we've got to be nice to him right now. he also talked about the way