just because something is inevitable or even predicted, we've long known, for example, that things were headed towards some sort of a confrontation between jim mattis the defense secretary and president trump that still manages to be shocking and surprising in the way it played out, and i do think when you see the president backed into a corner, he has escalated his behavior already in a way that does make me quite anxious when i think about what kinds of dysfunction we might see playing out in 2019. >> you know what, david, susan brings up a good point. i think the cohen sentencing was the end of last week, right, and then there was some fallout the beginning of this week. and the flynn thing was the beginning of this week. she's right because even by the standards of the trump presidency, this week has been bonkers. and i sense that more and more people are getting fed up with it. do you agree with that? >> you didn't even mention, don, the market melt down that was going on in response to this,