this unprecedented letter out, which really put the dysfunction between the president and first lady, embarrassingly in public and he is dealing with that embarrassment as well. >> this was an unprecedented statement by the first lady's office, intervening in a personnel matter on the national security council, but it isn't the first time we've seen these disagreements between the president and the first lady come into public view. i think the last time was when the first lady made a visit to the border during the controversy over child separation, making clear her disagreement with the administration's policy, but i have to agree with what frank and gloria said, which is that campaigning for the president, which is much more enjoyable than the difficult work of governing, and after the midterms, he's turned back again, staring down the barrel of the mueller probe. he has very dim prospects of passing legislation. i think that's why you saw him endorse criminal justice reform today. that's one of the things republicans and democrats have a