and so today he in fact took that step. but of course this isn't the first time. >> kristen, i want to pick up on what you just said, which is, we're talking about a real estate magnet here, he said this is valuable, this piece of real estate at the white house, i think the question here is whether this devaldeva devaled this property. >> reporter: and to some extent he may have, this voice in the white house, many people saw it as a stabilizing voice, gary cohn is a democrat, he's a free trade democrat, he's someone who's been a counter balance to president trump in so many different instances, someone who can say he disagrees with the president when it comes to economic policy. so there are real concerns about who will fill that void, steve mnuchin is not seen as filling that void, not having that counter weight to the president. and also ari, this announcement was made after the markets