smoothly. and that the white house is presenting a coherent message to the public in the face of so many things that you can't control happening every day. i want to agree with sara on a point that she made because i think it's very important. sean spicer went into this job with a lot of friends in the washington press corps and with a very good reputation and i think after leaving this job, he'll be able to rekinld a lot of those friendships and a lot of that reputation again. but at the end of the day, you're only as good in these jobs as the president you serve and the amount of trust that he gives you to be honest with him, to give your best, blunt advice, to actually go out there, design a strategy, and implement it, and so part of this -- part of what anthony scaramucci is probably going to learn is that it's a lot easier to be a friend on the outside than to be staff on the inside. >> gloria borger, anita dunn just expressing what a lot of us have said for a long time, that