when the truth is actually a good story to tell. >> yes. and i think that speaks of the fact that republicans realize that this election was not the economy's stupid election. this initially was supposedly going to be the election of the trump tax cuts. that's what was going to carry republicans to victory and then maintaining strong economic growth. i think what trump and his team realized was that opinions of the president's own conduct, behavior and actions superceded any economic growth people were seeing. he had to exaggerate and he had to embellish and he had to lie about that, too. >> it does seem that the tweets especially the attack tweets and the robert mueller tweets today are indicative of what's on the president's mind and what he thinks his job is today.