now, i'm not here to judge whether he did or didn't. each person will have to judge for themselves, but i think there's a very serious case to be made that although the president went, give him credit for that, didn't make any big mistakes, but he sort of came and went and ran the risk of seem irrelevant. this is part of the problem he's having with his presidency, whether he is all show and no go. or as they would say in texas, all hat and no cattle, because he can't deliver. to the most important powers of the presidency are the power to persuade and the power to invoke fear. that's been shrinking with the early stages of the trump presidency. >> that's exactly what we saw on display in two ways, both on the tax speech and what we saw with mattis. on that mattis moment, the chain of command is clear. the commander-in-chief who is the democratly elected civilian of the armed forces. there's a question of who