acting directors while tweeting about being all alone in the white house during a shut dodowf his own making while visiting troops led by an acting defense secretary during their activities. and huddling, trump huddling with his acting chief of staff, and you put it together, you get to a question that is uncomfortable for anyone rooting for the u.s. government to succeed, to remain open for business, let alone progress. if the top cabinet posts make this look increasingly like a permanently acting administration, at what point do we just have an acting president? and what are we going to do about it? we have a great panel here in our holiday week to get into this. david from, alessia menendez, and richard farley.