ashley, let me give you the last word. does this story land as a relief as a reason to make a change he may be wanting to make anyway or just another problematic story about another close aide thinking he s an idiot? that s a great question, and i think the short answer is it s a combination of both. the president, of course, who made his name on saying you re fired is sort of notoriously awful at firing people and he often needs to be pushed into doing what he clearly wants to do. this might give him that final nudge. by the same token, no one likes being called an idiot, certainly not this president. so, i don t think he s going to be thrilled even if it opened up some sort of new options for him to bring in a new chief of staff or do away with the position entirely. carol lee and ashley parker, two of the very best of the best people on the beat. thank you so much. our table will jump in on all of this breaking news on the other side of a break. we ll be right back. or is it
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and we lost 22 of them in this one episode. to put this in perspective, jon, those numbers are right, that s as many as there are nfl players, and in the analogy, they re very close, they are the very best of the best, and these guys, this particular team is not anywhere near the total number of all the seals that you just mentioned. so these guys are the special of special operations. they all come from the same community in that virginia beach area. and so this is a hit to the community. but i don t want to let lost the fact that there were army and air force troops killed in this thing. there is a saying that someone said that puts this in perspective that i think is germane, that to the world he was but someone, but to someone, he was their whole world. there are a lot of broken worlds around in this country today because of the events that happened on friday night, and our