a russia that has become a real outlier, a difficult china and venezuela that's unraveling, the middle east that's unraveled. the pressure on this set of people and the chaotic process at the risk op being self-whatever. i wrote a book about a world in disarray, and the combination of a world in disarray and an administration in disarray, that ought to keep people up at night. >> as you say in a tweet of yours, richard, peter navarro, one of the president's chief economic advisers said he thought his job was to find analysis to justify the president's views, which is a rather bizarre way to look at it. you'd think you'd first do the analysis and not just try to justify whatever the president's views were. do you worry now it's going to be yes men all the way?