negative because it's -- you have the whole country watching. the highest rated political event of the year. and so and then you saw that in the audience last night. you also saw by the way that independents and republicans loved the speech. steve: yep. >> democrats generally didn't like the speech. that's because y'all did the other morning this thing where you interviewed the students about how they thought about the speech the night before. brian: before it happened. >> before it happened. they knew what they were supposed to say. i hated the speech. he was really terrible. ainsley: what does the president need to do going forward. we have seen the polls. some democrats were giving it a c. some of the points at least a c. normally give it an f what does he need to do going forward? >> i think the most important thing he could do is stay on message, at least through the sunday talk shows, avoid all the temptation to go off and tweet about something irrelevant. avoid all the effort by the elite media who are going to be dragging bait in front of him. begging him. because this was a very successful speech.