the job for the rest of the year, her abrupt resignation raises plenty of questions. gloria borger, what do we know about the timing of this sudden announcement today? >> we don't know much, beyond the fact that people were surprised, including bolton and pompeo and lots of people inside the white house. and what this leads me to believe is that this is something that nikki haley decided to do, and we have done some reporting on this, because not only for personal reasons, but i think she felt she was losing a bit of clout as a u.n. ambassador. when tillerson had been secretary of state, the president depended on her an awful lot. when tillerson left and pompeo came in, the president is very close to pompeo. i think she felt her clout kind of decreasing. she felt this was a good time. and maybe she wanted to get out in front of all the people who are going to leave or get fired after the midterm elections, and sort of separate herself that way. so that's -- that explains the