it's time now for our sunday group, cofounder of "the federalist," ben domenech.own university's institute of politics and public service. there are reports this weekend that president trump is going to cut back on the number of white house briefings and cut back on his appearances at them. do you think that's smart? to think these briefings have begun to backfire politically on the president? >> i think that it does make sense to cut back a little bit on these briefings as much as we do get some information out of them and with many times we've seen them just go off the rails and back-and-forth and battles between the president and those in the press but i think that what we really need in this moment is seriousness and we need more seriousness from these briefings. just given your interview with oklahoma's governor right now i think that a lot of people are still operating under some false premises about the kind of challenges that we are facing, the idea that we are going to ramp up mass testing, that we are going to have it at a conference of level very short