let's bring in patrick gavin, dan gerstein and princella smithe. >> abigail adams, abraham lincoln, does feel like she has something to prove? >> a little bit. she has such a platform that no one else in politics has right now. to a certain degree, she has to be careful not to overcompensate because her appeal is to the middle class, average american who feels like washington is out of touch, has failed them. i think there's just a lot of anger. not just about ideology or big government, failures of the elite to, you know, take care of the middle class. to create economic prosperity and to run a government that is functional. and she taps into that. >> let me ask you that, i don't want to misinterpret what you're saying. but does she have to keep it at that level or do you buy the argument that a lot of people are making. she has to go pretty quickly if she's going to run and she has to get some sort of platform in there. she has to start talking about politics. >> chris, i think it's amazing that she threw out the bait and you guys, the media, just bit it. >> it's all about us. >> i'm s