anita kumar is with us, white house correspondent for mcclatchy newspapers and the aforementioned jeremy peters back with us, political reporter for "the new york times." anita, steve schmidt has this way of focusing the mind. and when you hear it in those words, when you hear the list of recipients of these packages, it really focuses the mind. the question for you is, is the white house political operation just continuing to go forward unabated? we had wisconsin last night. president's got north carolina tomorrow night. are these parallel universes? >> i don't think you're going to see the president stop campaigning. he's going to be, as you mentioned, campaigning friday and saturday, and i can expect him to be campaigning every day for the -- till the election, november 6. they felt like yesterday at the white house that when cnn issued their statement, sort of pushing back on the president's comments, and i think sarah huckabee sanders as well, they felt like that statement was over the top, that it just overdid it. and that they could go back to their message of the long-time strate