michael, i mean, vice president pence, obviously, has been unwavering in his support for president trump publicly, even just this past weekend, amid the reporting by "the new york times" that some of the president's staff wonder whether someone in the vice president's team may have had something to do with the op-ed, which the vice president has obviously denied, are the president's allies and the vice president's allies always on the same page? >> no, they're not. and i think what you point out that the vice president's team could have been involved in this, but the vice president himself left no fingerprints is likely. when my co-author, peter eisner and i read the initial publication in "the new york times," we both thought we saw the vice president's speechwriter or maybe his former chief of staff at work on that prose. so you've got now a vice president who's racing to humiliate himself. this whole idea of there being a lie detector test, he goes one step further and says, well,