boyhood dream, but white house chief of staff is a pretty important job and now that you re leaving a month before the mid term elections. he has to if he s going to run for mayor. filing. november 22nd. and won t they make nasty comments about rats leaving a sinking ship. there have been a lot. one can. one could say that he s the chief rat, but that would be wrong. bret: charles. how do you follow that? look, i think he clearly is leaving. i think obama is going to want to get an insider for two reasons. number one is he likes people he trusts. and he was an outsider, he doesn t have a long history here in washington, but i think the deeper reason is that when you bring in an outsider, somebody who s a public face, mara spoke about reagan bringing in howard baker, but that was in iran-contra. clinton bringing in panetta, but that s after the debacle in the mid term election, it s an admission that i was, i didn t quite get it. it s an admission that i