jim shultz and barrett burger. look at the outfit that jim shultz has on. get that banner out of the way. that is a fetching tuxedo. is that just for me, or you have something else? >> i'm coming from federal society tonight. and at that dinner, i saw a standing ovation for newly confirmed associate justice brett kavanaugh. >> i'm sure you guys are pumped. the president took the list you made of judges, didn't make a change, didn't ask a question, he's doing exactly as you asked. >> that's what he's doing. >> barrett, it's not okay you're not in formal dress. not everybody has to be. barrett, where does it take you that you look at the president's tweets, something happened. we know he's been spending hours answering the questions, do you think he was surprised by the questions or all of this talk about how loco mueller's people are going? what's your read? >> i don't know how easy it is to ever read too much into these tweets. who knows what it is that actually set it off. i mean, prosecutors did file a letter saying that gates was not ready to be sentence