there last year when he spoke and gave the keynote republican. one of the most challenging speeches to do every year. one thing to talk policy but to be funny as a politician, there's a lot of pressure on that. >> ask the house speaker paul ryan. >> we were working on for many days. >> i want to dig into what phil wrote this morning along the colleagues ashley park e and josh dausy. inside the white house the aides describe an air of volatility with an uncontrollable commander in chief at the center. these are the darkest days in at least half a year, they say, and they worry just how much further president trump and his administration may plunge into unrest and malaise before they start to recover. as one official put it, we haven't bottomed out. so, phil, and i want your take, how much further does this go? if we can't bottomed out, what is next? all about russia or more than?