maria's point, you know, globally around the world. listen to what he told our wolf blitzer. >> sure. >> this is really damaging when you're a democrat or a republican. liberal or conservative. you love the country. you don't want to see a white house that seems to be so chaotic, so incompetent and so filled with contradictory actions and opinions that people around the world and people here in america wonder if there's any leadership at all coming from the president. >> so, ben, are you hearing in republican circles there's real concern about the messages sent globally? >> there's just not. if you're an establishment republican or democrat like schumer for example, let's be clear, schumer's been saying the same exact lines you just heard there before election day, before he actually beat hillary clinton. so this is meaningless to me coming from chuck schumer. this is exactly -- you can just change the date on the screen. it would be what he said before election day a year and a half