>> i think the point about the president making that demand of china in public is part of the way that he does these things. he is aware that, you know, the biggest power of a secret is that it is a secret and if he does it out in public, it is like look, i have nothing to hide. what are you even looking at? it takes away the power of these investigations. i think that that is his m.o. with doing that. his own advisers like larry kudlow said that he wasn't sure if the president was joking or not. so the messaging is a little all over the place. but i think that going forward i think that the clear strategy the white house wants to take is stonewa stonewalling, calling the investigations illegitimate and they think that politically this will be wrapped up probably by next year, politically it shouldn't hurt them, they still feel very confident about their re-election campaign. and that it will look like this