a difficult quality to achieve if you stop and look. there have been more high-ranking people depart and head for the exit signs in the trump administration in 20 short months than any presidency in modern history and perhaps throughout history. i'm not quite sure of that. they've left in droves, and it just goes to speak to how difficult it is, in fact, to serve this administration and to be able to have that balancing act of never offending him and of always being completely 100% unthinkingly, blindly loyal to him. >> we have a graphic. we will put it on the screen. we show all of the administration departiers over t -- departures over the last year and a half or so and you see those that left the administration. as you know, the national security adviser, ambassador john bolt en, former ambassador to the u.n., he is a harsh critic of the united nations. he has gained influence inside the trump administration. do you think the next ambassador will have the president's ear? >> so it may be that mr.