if anything the president didn t want to be seen as praising those two, i don t know, but all s well that ends well. mike, quickly if i may, apparently the president s schedule is so gruelling and busy that he s going to sleep on air force one. it is. how common is that for the president? aside from traveling across continents because this is across the united states? reporter: i don t recall this president ever doing that while president, it s true. coming back from hawaii he goes out there or has gone out there for his annual christmas, new year s vacation. i believe they do that in a red eye fashion but everybody does that coming back from hawaii to the east coast and of course there s international travel as well. he s going to iowa, colorado, los angeles to tape the jay low know show las vegas, flies overnight to florida on the red eye, goes to virginia, then to chicago to vote early voting in chicago at his home, then to ohio on the tarmac, so it is a whirlwind two-day