america and its urgent lessons for our own," eddie gloud, and editor for the "washington post," ruth marcusth are msnbc contributors. good to see you both this morning. ruth, let me start with you. ruth, there have been reports that the president was made clear of this polling, and in fact, he has sort of a good set of polls and a bad set of polls, and his people told him about the bad set of polls and he lost it on his own people, who are now apparently just showing him the good sets of polls. >> well, the only right polls, according to president trump, are the ones that show him winning. and we know this and we've seen it before. but the degree of his reported explosion with his campaign manager, brad pasquale -- i love the reports in my own newspaper talk about him having threatened to sue his campaign manager. you know, candidates in trouble change their staffs, but the candidate, and this one in particular, needs to change his own behavior. >> eddie, what do you make of this? joe biden has been largely in sight. he's not doing a ton of interviews, but more than he's done before. he is