right? so doocy said is inflation going to be a problem for you in the midterm, and instead of saying we are concerned about it and that's why i'm doing x, y, z, in fact, peter, that's why i'm having this meeting today, and i'm top of it, and then you wouldn't have had any of this this. howard: one of 27 ways he could have handled this. i know you remember when george w. bush, thinking he wasn't being heard, called a new york times reporter call -- >> but the best part of that exchange was he said it to dick cheney, the vice president, who looked over and said, bigtime. howard: i remember that. >> we dealt with that for years. obviously, the president felt bad about it. eye thought president biden and peter doocy handled it perfectly. make a call, blow it off. howard: yeah, i'm glad that widen called him -- biden call