driven. i'm sure he has been exceedingly frustrated by having the intelligence driving operations and strategies, and, you know, over the last year, he's tried to reconsolidate things after the debacle that was the flynn national security agency, and now he is actually bringing some things together, but i got to believe that it's been a tough year for him. and it's been extremely difficult. he has been very verbal on the world strategy. -- strategy. he's go stage. >> there's the geopolitical message and then there's the political message it sends about how the white house is or is not functioning. >> that's right. and in this game of thrones style of shuffle in this white house it also means that general kelly has recovered a bit from the porter scandal from a few weeks ago, at least in president trump's eyes, so it means he's