not believe anything the white house says? the guy goes for what he says is a physical? >> right. the white house says they took advantage of a kind of down weekend to get started on some portion of his annual physical. look, curiosity about the president's physical state is absolutely legitimate. that's really important. he's the president of the united states. that's why physicals are done and then the results are reported. now, wild speculation about why he's going, why it wasn't on the schedule, the white house sometimes doesn't put things on the schedule. i think that's not as legitimate. howard: yeah. it just occurred to me that, you know, i don't see any reason to not believe the white house account, but this is so much baked into the media attack of this president. well, he's probably sick but he's not telling us -- >> well, okay, same thing when hillary clinton coughed on the campaign trail, donald trump said she was dying -- you know, others said that she looked sick, and that became a whole thing. i think that's just, unfortunately, baked into the