whole thing is just so -- it wouldn't be necessarily odd. i think if you are going to be a change agent, you have to mix things up. it's always going to be hard. but this was so misplaced and the timing of it so poor. as i said, it's almost sophomoric in the way we're going to show the world we're getting along and we love our president, we can't wait to get every day and work for him. you would expect them for them taking the oath of office to do those important jobs. it came -- it didn't look that serious. it looked so odd. i thought, this is a terrible way to try to correct your problem. why don't you have a staff meeting and then come out with some great proposals and work with congress to get something done in a meaningful way? that will go so much further than these kind of -- i don't know what you call them. >> thank you very much. coming up next, more repercussions from the breaking news, word from a friend of the president he may be thinking about firing the russia special