slowdown and say the president got us into a trade war, he s not keeping his promises on saying that he was going to end bad trade deals, if they can make that argument, that is a little bit safer space for them to be instead of saying, you know, we want the president to fail on the economy because that means millions of americans would be harmed. so they re trying to figure out that path. it does seem like they re trying to hit him hard over the trade war and over the farmers trying to pull back some of his base, some of the people who may have supported him in 2016 by saying the president has not kept his promises. he s not helped your lot in life and that seems to be where they find more safe argument. and a very different technique. you heard our reporter kirsten earlier say the white house approach here is deny, deny, deny that there would be any kind of downturn. does that come with risks, too? it certainly can. of course, you want to at least imply or tell the nation that ev