we didn't get criticism at all when president obama said if you like your health insurance plan you can keep your health insurance. we didn't describe that as a lie. it was untruth and we haven't described things that donald trump said it was a lie. the answer what you're getting at is a large section of the media had decided that there's something specifically and uniquely threatening about donald trump that they actually have to take a posture of confrontation and opposition to him and they have -- they have to be in the arena and saying this man is a terrible threat to our freedoms and democracy and they have to be out there actually in a partisan way disagreeing with him. howie: great to have you on the show, thanks very much for joining us. >> thanks, howie, thanks for having me. howie: scary story about the russians supposedly hacking our grid and joe scar bow row calls the reporter a liar for tweeting about his relationship pickckckck