maintain control of the senate and even his own job in 2020? >> it is immensely entertaining. it is possibly effective in certainly in certain areas and i think at points profoundly disturbing especially when he continues the attacks on the press as the enemy of the people. this is the type of thing his base likes. this is the type of thing that got him elected, that got him media attention where other candidates couldn't get media attention i think his thought process is it worked for me before it probably will work for him again. certainly i'm sure when he was especially in the local press in montana, i bet you that they covered nothing else than president trump's comments. and, you know, you had john tester, the senator there, he tried to kind of get on president trump's coattails, he put a big ad in the newspaper saying of the things that he and president trump agreed on, but, you know, president trump -- julie: that backfired. >> -- took the opportunity to point out the fact that on the issues that mattered, john tester wasn't quite there with