struggling to understand. a couple of thoughts here. i think to some degree, the trump administration at the senior levels is being consumed by its own hubris. they must think of themselves as masters of the universe. and put that in combination with their evident -- and that is what i think bothers me personally the most -- their seeming contempt of american institutions, the denigrating things they've said about everything from our judiciary to our intelligence agencies. these institutions, including in fact the intelligence agencies, because they're closely supervised in the united states, these interest functions of our democracy. and i can't help thinking that in the background of all of this is that sophomoric idea we used to hear about deconstructing the administrative state, that somehow we shouldn't use these discussions. we should use the ones we trust