>> flatter y gets me very far. that's also what the russians new in 2016 which is one of the reasons why they influenced our elections because they knew that hillary clinton was going to be tough, she was not going to be somebody who they could just, you know, flatter and get what they wanted. they knew that trump would be putty in their hands. and that's what we're seeing come to fruition. >> abe was one of the earliest leaders to try to get on trump's good side, you look at emmanuel macron, how did that work out for him? he hasn't gotten a single win out of that. they continue to do it and that's not clear they're going to get them the results they want. >> i'm going to pause it here. up ahead, we're going to be live, we got biden's first town hall, we hear him verbalize his critique of the president and justin amash's first public