president trump has a very clear record of, you know, focusing on made-for-television events, for taking chirons and rewriting them, to try to say what he wants to focus on. i think going into this meeting, relationships between the democratic leaders and the president were not great. i'm anxious to have some private conversations with some of the people that were in the room as we kind of flesh out exactly how people are feeling now. but, it just has to be -- you have to think it's at a new low. because this really is kind of a remarkable -- a remarkable turn of events for some of the most powerful people in the country. i mean, nancy pelosi, you know, in line to the presidency of the united states. and somebody that, you know, the president has, it's been reported, has had respect for before. he has criticized the former republican speaker of the house, paul ryan, for not being able to deal with misfits in his own conference and said that he admired pelosi for being able to keep all of her people on the straight and narrow. so, again, if there was any hope of trying to get anything done here i