government. and that can leave us unprepared or less prepared for national security challenges. i do believe that at this point it's starting to take a toll. >> amanda, i want to ask you about this, because it has been conventional wisdom by some folks -- as well i think that may -- a lot of this stuff in the past couple weeks have been to change the headlines. people may not have been fired today because they're going to be fired sand. when the stormy daniels interview runs. there's been speculation in order to distract from the interview set to aaron sunday the president is going to announce reportedly maybe the va affairs, the hud secretary ben carson supposedly next on the chopping block until the mcmaster announcement caught them off guard. mcmaster's firing was on the same night of the karen mcdougal interview. what do you think we'll hear