exposed as entirely dysfunctional. the presidency is in serious trouble because, as you laid out, i think this is the first week that we saw significant cracks among the president's own fellow partisans, his supporters, whether it was conservative media and republican senators saying don't touch jeff sessions, not just backing him, but pushing back on the president. they are saying sessions was right to recuse himself or, as you noted, the boy scouts coming out and regretting they had the president of the united states there and it became political. they are cracks and fish sures we haven't seen before. his own military. it's different than the usual critics and what we have seen before. this week was quite new and astonishing. we haven't talked about the word russia, yet. that wasn't the dominant