that develops around it. and that can be very damaging, it can be very supportive. took a long time for lbj to lose walter cronkite over vietnam. i don't know what's going to happen, but when shep smith over at fox started saying bad things about the president's story and calling him lies, that's not a good thing if you're over at the white house. >> you know, don, if i may, one point that frank just made, part of the strategy here might just be chaos. i would point viewers to a piece that the new yorker's television critic emily nussbaum just wrote in the new yorker about donald trump's showmanship, the way he's brought the reality television into the business of being president of the united states. many of the decisions that are being made have to do with sort of keeping people on their toes, have to do with the entertainment value. putting scaramucci in that position, a guy with zero experience in politics, zero experience in running a communication shop, a lot of that has to do with the sort of showmanship of a guy like scaramucci purely for the element of political theater.