there are three things that you can do in a situation like this. if your boss wants to layer in somebody on top of your next to you and you disagree with it, you can accept it and try to work within that. you can maybe acquiesce, that is fine. or you can make your case, lose, and to then decide that the right thing to do is resign, or you can stay and get better, leak against your colleagues. who do things that would be pretty despicable in washington. what we saw today was somebody doing something what you would hope other people in the government, not just in the political administration but the entire government, if you disagree and do not think you can do your job the way that you want to do it, resign. and honorably. and he also leaves the white house amicably. he has a good relationship with the president and with scaramucci and reince priebus. and good will still with the press, because people know them from before. probably the best outcome was to