people. i think we ve been on the other end of some of those phone calls. the interesting part about mike s departure is anybody who who s covered a white house knows, and you laid it out, communications director, in terms of the things that are very lacking in the white house for pushing their agenda forward, that s the communications director job. while mike never settled in with the team, he never gelled with the operation by all accounts, didn t gel with the guy who sits in the oval office, that should be a crucial component of whatever they re doing next. you don t leave that job open or have a slow transition period. that job is what lays out the opportunities for you to succeed on capital hill on the things you want to keep your head down and keep working toward as your outside team is fighting to not back any news about investigation. but it s hard to do that job to plan where is the president going to be? where is he going to be next week? what s he going to do in the big sp