if he left before hand would it make any difference on the mid terms? >> well, i think from the president's point of view it's -- this is an unfortunate thing for him that's going to totally blot out the story about whatever he is going to say in chicago -- cleveland tomorrow for example it's all going to be about rahm and shuffles around the chief of staff's office and who is going to be running what. i think if rahm leaves now it'll play right into the republican story line about the need to -- remember the republicans are saying the president needs to change his economic advisers. they're going to jump on this and say if rahm is leaving, look, rahm is gone. we should get rid of everybody else, etcetera, etcetera. is there a temporary chief of staff, a new permanent chief of staff? there are some names that automatically come to mind as i've been calling around this afternoon. ron klane. the chief of staff to joe biden and who is very highly regarded, some people would like to see tom daschle's name be brought back into this because it's likely that the white house is going to have to be dealing with a more republican congress regardless.