adviser to the hillary clinton campaign. she's also an msnbc contributor. making light of it there, adrienne, does that help -- does that assuage some of the folks who might have been concerned or who may be concerned about the vice president's flubs? >> yeah, i think so. think it's smart that the biden campaign decided to put joe biden on stephen colbert last night. because, for one had the any time you're trying to make light of something that could potentially be damaging in the future, it's very commonplace that campaigns will put your -- the candidate in a setting that allows them to, you know, sort of ease the, you know, potential burden, ease the potential pain and, you know, sort of make light of this. there's no better place do that than putting the candidate on the late show. we do this a couple times with hillary clinton on the campaign whenever there's -- the email situation, for example, which got so far out of hand it was a way for her to sort of make fun of it, make light of it but try to focus on the fact that she's moving on and focusing on the issues that matter most during the campaign i think that's what