the history of the world. >> nobody talks about it? why would anybody be talking about -- catherine, you cover the white house. is there ever any reason to talk about something else? has anybody given anybody any reason to talk about something else than the economy? >> the rally makes a point. the president does talk about the economy. he talks about it on twitter and at his rallies. but when you do a two-hour rally you have a lot of time to cover a lot of material. and there's no evidence that he's going to exclusively talk about the economy for the next year, whatever republicans would like. and we've seen this movie before. in the run-up to the 2018 midterms, republicans, especially vulnerable republicans, really wanted the president to focus on the economy, stay away from more hot button issues. at some point he basically told reporters that he couldn't keep a rally going just talking about the economy for the entire time. so that's not going to happen. but the campaign recognizes that this is a powerful argument and