joe maloney, you worked a lot of campaigns. i'm interested on your view of the politics of this.ll look at what hillary said as self-interested. oh, here are excuses for my loss. and that's partly why i think she cites nate silver to say, this is what the data shows. i want to put up one other piece of data to ask you whether the press sort of blew it. this is from the howard jordanstein center, nonpartisan, they looked at scandal coverage of hillary clinton going into the end of the race. and as you can see in those last two weeks, it was at an all-time high. this is negative scandal coverage, according to harvard, which was, of course, driven by two cryptic, confusing letters from the fbi, which, and the end of my question is coming, which ironically ended by saying there was no scandal there, the second letter clearing her, but what is the political impact of that in your view? >> it's difficult to ascertain at this moment in time. and particularly in light of what the president shared with the country today. and his specific request to try to distinguish politics from the eve