and democracy works. and i think all of those are being challenged, he was i worked by the french saying he was adopting trump-like tactics with the the way submarine deal is down. they're questioning is the u.s. back given the afghanistan exit. they're looking at the chaos back home over his agenda, his own party is divided over how to put that agenda in place, and i think the white house realizes how that could affect him trying to use that message while he's here. >> let's get a quick word from axelrod. david, thank you very much. what is your take on the awareness level of the existential game afoot for democrats? obviously they didn't want to talk about the afghanistan exit as anything that big of a deal. they thought it was overly harsh on biden and it was really trump who got them into it, and they don't see this virginia test, at least outwardly, as being about them? >> first of all, i do think that