distracted that he won t have the opportunity to respond. back to you. thank you, peter. steve schmidt, you and i have run a few war-rooms. have you ever seen an effort that is sort of hobbled by the principals effort? by that, i mean they re trying to line up surrogates, trying to do a little bit of getting ahead of this story and it s almost and, and you wouldn t deny this i don t think, governor, that the president will react before they can. look, i think this white house runs like colonel clink ran in hogan s heroes. it s extraordinary the level of communication incompetence on all of this. the ad that s smearing the reputation of jim comey who you question his judgment on a number of different issues over the last year but no one questioned his moral rectitude, his affinity for the truth. so, look, at the end of the day, every one of these issues that the white house is dealing with, all of them, are self-inflicted. i mean, over and over again,