white vote up enough to hold on to the house and senate? that's the political calculation here, brian. it's in great contrast in my opinion to the haphazard slap dash whim of the moment way that trump and his administration conduct themselves. >> all right. lightning round here, gang. >> connie, go ahead. >> i want to say i think these rallies -- these are about his neediness. how much attention must you still get when you're president of the united states? he needs to hear those people chanting and cheering for vile things he's saying. this is about trump needing this to feel like somebody is on his side. he knows at some level he has got to know at this point. he is losing this one. but he still goes out in public and gets to hear people frantically cheering for him and he goes back to the white house and feels big for a minute. it's a betrayal of the principles of the country. >> does this stick when we come to the end of 2017 considering