i'm joined by ya sinda, and tim o'bri o'bri o'brien. what woodward says in his book about the president is he's incapable of expressing the truth because he doesn't know how to word it. and more scary to me that he's unattached to reality. now he's coming out and saying he deserves a pluses for his handling of hurricanes and basically is ignoring what looks to be the storm warnings of him losing both house of congress in november. >> he wants to look like he's winning at all times even if he lost. obviously some 3,000 people were killed in hurricane marie, people had no electricity in puerto rico, which is part of the united states, for more than a year. he doesn't want to deal with the reality that there were people suffering because of things his government failed to do. so in his response, instead of taking credit for that, he's saying it's the mayor of san juan, who's been open and critical of how much i should have done differently -- >> so he picked a fight with a minority woman. >> yes. >> that's not unusual, is it? >> no. >> let