had to confront it and work your way out of it. in this case it doesn't matter. i will say this is not -- it's unique in american history, it's not ue, of course, in other countries. there's a powerful essay written by vaclav havel who was a magnificent and eloquent czech dissident and he wrote an essay called "the power and the powerless" and he talked about what happens when a polity, a group of citizens live within a lie and what happens -- it's a corrosive effect on the civic culture and political culture and that's where we are and why it's so important that people not willing to live between lie, in havel's flaz live within the truth speak the truth, that's the press, those are political figures and citizens but it has to be republicans. what's troubling here, it's no surprise trump is doing this,