republicans on. the problem is this is not someone in the obama inner circle. does he have a comfort level. other shuffling going around. jim jones likely to leave his national security advisor. tom donnell is not going to be the chief of staff, even though he's talked about it. there's a lot that has to happen. in the short term, they're going to have pete rouse be the brains. >> you could have, i'm told, a many as half a dozen major retirements after this election. >> retirements from what? >> retirements from the senate, you have to take -- >> forced retirements. >> forced retirements. but someone like chris dodd, byron dorgen meeting. if chris jones leave, does tom donland go over there? >> there's a tough calculation. where the white house has made mistakes is they're too insular. the more ips lar than we were in