right about now. and i'm guessing there's a pretty solid base of recognition for this in the west wing. >> yeah, brian, this is not news to those who are helping guide the president's re-election campaign. they know that they have to do things to get those poll numbers back on in a more comfortable space and, you know, the instinct from president trump and from some of his closest political advisers has been to focus on the base. to energize, mobilize, galvanize, those core supporters, but there's a growing recognition that in order to win back, again, a second time those industrial midwestern states that he carried in 2016, wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, to be sure that he wins florida again, frer for example, to try to be competitive if some of these other swing states like north carolina, he's going to have to expand beyond the base and what we've not seen yet from the president in these last few months since the midterm election defeat, is an expansion of his appeal. an attempt to reach out to