townsend, first homeland security director. and he is somebody who just to put it plainly knows what he's doing. so the fact that he was told he no longer has a job so abruptly is jarring. and kaitlan reported from her sources, i've been talking to mine as well, the shock of this. having said that, because this is not a policy issue necessarily or anything of that nature, this does seem to be john bolton, the brand-new national security adviser saying he wants his people in. a little bit of a subplot is that bossert was initially brought on at the beginning of the administration at an elevated status and frankly he was brought on, we reported at the time, to counter then national security adviser michael flynn, a lot of people were worried about frankly about the stability of michael flynn. and so in that sense, he might have been almost too senior for