joining me now ashley parker and nicklaus cyst-o nicklaus christof. >>> what we found is that the president again as you said, as he always has been throughout his life, he always cares about numbers. he cared about his wealth, crowd sizes, vote totals, the economy, and consumer indexes. that is what he is bringing to this crisis. what he wants is wants the markets up and the number of cases down. but unfortunately that has cowed some administration officials in terms of public messaging and their willingness to broach tough topics with the president privately, from often giving him the full range of the information he might need or needs to go out to the public. some people said also he's getting a range of briefings, a lot of data, but they'll give him different setsz of projections, best case and worst case, and they say he has a habit of clinging to just the rosiest numbers and repeating them publicly. and one final thing is a lot of times when we have seen him unexpectedly decide to address the nation as we did wednesday night or appear in the briefing room, there's often not a lot of