on his staff and more and more on his own instincts. i'll bring in maggie haberman. and maybe this is part of it. and politico is reporting the top white house aide steven chung last day wasn friday and he's been on trump team since the campaign. you tweeted the purge is beginning. >> and it is. i think that steven chung will be the first of a couple of people from the communications staff which is separate from the white house press team -- chung's name had been on several lists going back to 2017 of people who could be on the chopping block and it is surprising every single time he was on the campaign and he was seen as a high performer. he was one of the hardest workers. involved in the gorsuch nomination and the tax effort and so it is not surprising in the sense that i think this is -- less about who is loyal to donald trump and who is having fights internally with other people and other factions.