editor. >> how unprecedented is this? >> there are no ways to possibly compare this to anything. i keep coming back to dorothy parker's description of warren harding, another scandal prone president who said ultimately he is just a slob. and there is a quality of just to this entire administration from donald trump down. but the difference is in the 1920s america was not a nuclear power. the president doesn't have to worry about what is happening on the korean peninsula. we are in a situation where there is unprecedented power resting with the president of the united states and from day to day we have no idea if anyone in the white house is either -- >> that was the point of senior state department official. coming off the european trip it is clear to her that everyone else is playing chess.