mr. brinkley will -- there are many administrations that failed in their first attempts.nton administration took on a number of issues they failed with initially. it has an impact, it does. i would, however, point out the fact that the obituary on health reform may be prematurely written here. that is to say, trump and ryan may well be just allowing the freedom caucus to marinate in the juices of their failure. there are a lot of opportunities over the course of the next six months where they can bring this up. and i think it's notable that speaker ryan did not allow the bill to fail. it still sits out there. and so those who below that this is just gone away i think may be premature. >> well, of course it gets more difficult to do as you get to the mid-terms and all of these members have to go back and run again. let me come to you, douglas. we heard from david gergen just yesterday, something that is getting a lot of attention. he's worked for four presidents, republicans and democrats. here is what he said about the president's first 100 days thus far. okay. so we don'