the alternative? and if he is already being able to go around him and have direct access to people that he wants to deal with like john bolton, then what s the harm? and you can task him with different things here and there, but you know, there s been a lot of reporting of our own, other news organizations about whether or not he s going to stay. the white house tried to tamp that down by issuing a statement saying he ll stay until 2020, but no one really thinks that s actually the case. what do you make of the fact that inside the media on immigration, it doesn t appear there was a debate about the substance? i participated in immigration policy meetings, and we landed on comprehensive immigration reform, our closest ideological allies were the late ted kennedy and john mccain who supported comprehensive immigration reform and the entire republican base had moved away from what george w. bush propose chtd whed.