they went aboard his team. are you saying he's surrounding himself with sycophants, are they not competent? >> i think he demands however you say the noun version of sycophant from these people and i think many of these people and i make this point in the column would not have gotten these opportunities under a different president. donald trump knows that. they know that and that's sort of one of the dysfunctions of the administration. they don't feel the confidence that they might if they were serving a president who had a lot of other options. donald trump did not have his pick of the crop. there were many other people who were nonstarters because the administration, donald trump kept a list of anyone who had ever said anything bad about him. in retrospect of course mitt romney was not going to be secretary of state because he had committed the cardinal sin of publicly reprimanding donald trump. >> they may think it's a good