three different respects. one, you're setting a tone for the way we talk to each other as a nation, and you're representing us or not representing us. two, you're enabling people who may not see those ideas as jokes. i suspect the president doesn't either. you're enabling them to act and think that way. and, three, the world is watching. the united states used to be -- i mean arguably we weren't always living up to this ideal, but we would suggest that we were supporting liberty and freedom around the world. >> mm-hmm. >> you now have a president whose rhetoric is contrary to that. all those three implications come from the rhetoric a president uses. he doesn't get it. he keeps thinking he's a billionaire who gets what he wants, and he happens to have a new home in washington, d.c. temporarily, and he can continue to say and talk the way he did before. he can't. he shouldn't. and the effect on the presidency is corrosive. >> adam, it seems impossible