joining me now is washington bureau chief john stanton, jonathan capehart and maria kumar. john, i feel like this president is excited -- clearly excited about the sales pitch he is making and u feel like he thinks the other side of the aisle does not have much to sell at all. >> i think you're right and/think they don't have much of a coordinate message. they are all home for ten days for thanksgiving and the white house for whatever reason -- republicans have creede them th battlefield. which is odd. they were doing a good job of beating up on the president and the white house didn't do a good job of selling it beforehand at all but it's now he is out and giving these big, soaring speeches and getting crowds fired up. if they're going to do this it's