comes to those rallies. >> white house reporter, at the daily beast. also aaron blake, senior political reporter at the "washington post." and brianna gray, senior of politics editor. all of you, welcome. let's talk more about president trump in this victory lap as he's celebrating kavanaugh's confirmation. he also took time to slam the democrats. i can't imagine he's going to stop now, especially with the rallies coming up. how does the rhetoric help him with that momentum ahead of the midterms and how much more can he squeeze that out knowing we've got four more weeks to go? >> i think he's going to continue harping on it as long as he can because when you speak with republican strategists about the effect this has had, they see it a definite net win for republicans. obviously democrats have been fired up by this process as much or more than republicans have, but the way the republicans that o i've spoken to frame it this they were already fired up. they were already turning out. the first midterm contest of a presidency is usually very tough