he needs to. you look at polls coming up, early, small polls, particularly michigan one. they are disconcerting what's happening in texas and other states. just to make sure the president is paying attention to this, for the last months has been focused on robert mueller and that investigation and not necessarily what's happening on the ground in key states. >> the dysfunction, no one feels like, can your top adviser sit with you in the residence for an hour after dinner and talk to you? the only way they know to communicate with him is through leaks in the press. >> it's amazing. we know the reporting from the end of the 2016 campaign, they thought the pr pitch would end as he planned, in defeat, where he would have new deals and new notoriety and a huge microphone. they were all basically around him in a sickle calling the world to say it wasn't me, it wasn't me, it wasn't me. >> that's right. >> basically what you have is a leak out of the embryonic 2020