. >> donut jokes aside, seems news of his surgery garnered bipartisan support. >> the challenge, chrisis to start, now you have to maintain and if i couldn't be your starter, i could help be your maintenance man. >> joining me, reverend al sharpton, host of msnbc politics nation, and msnbc political analyst, steve schmidt, senior adviser for the mccain, palin campaign and strategist for bush cheney in '04. reverend al, you're around the building, yourself discipline is amazing. your congratulations were kind and generous. in terms of what it means for self-discipline, potential campaigning, how hard is it, how hard will it be for him to deal with this, deal with the weight at the same time he deals with other national issues, if you will? >> that remains to be seen. i mean, the discipline we'll see now in terms of his maintaining, and maintenance of what he has done. all jokes aside, keeping weight off is much more difficult than getting it off, especially when you don't do it naturally. on the political side, he is going to have to do more than lose weight to be president. i mean, the