and he said not optimal, pairing something. >> not a good statement. not good. >> yeah. so the bar is high. and there are many pit falls to sitting there and trying to be funny. >> well, it's very possible he will make a mistake. i mean, if he makes a mistake, that's bad. i think it will be an extremely soft interview, very soft, and i'm sure they already have that understanding, frankly. but is it a mistake? i think it's more of a mistake because everyone else on television is going to be angry that he's doing it. >> that's an interesting perspective because a lot of people think he's doing it because he's look for the people who don't really pay attention to the news on a daily basis. so they will just see him as being more of the cool president that a lot of people thought of him four years ago. >> i won rate it a mistake. he's going to go on and he's going to hopefully do well for himself and con the people into another four years, which is not what we do. >> he bombs on letterman when he didn't know the deficit. he also said he didn't know what happened in libya. and on jon stewart he looked