but look at the results, the economy and so forth and keep coming back to this. there was a time, anderson, as you know i thought they were whipping this up to distract us but clearly they've let this thing go on so long they need to change course. we're 8 or 9 weeks here before the elections, democrats can only sit there and say keep going, keep going, just do what you're doing. >> michael, it makes sense for sarah sanders to say, look, we have important work to do, but when you have the president tweeting about this stuff, and as i said bob woodward, he's just getting going with the interviews, it's hard to believe that the president is going to go along with this line we have more important things to be thinking about. >> well, you're right, anderson. and i think it's also true that sarah sanders would like to draw attention to the positive things the administration is doing. but who -- what worse person could the president pick than bob woodward to get into a credibility fight with.