doesn't loom as large as that but i think it raises a couple of questions, which are, number one, how independent is the department of justice going to be under the trump administration? this raises real questions. number two, you mentioned that jeff sessions is about to be confirmed. the whole nature of that confirmation, i think, is likely to be transformed and, number three, donald trump stock and trade when he ran for president was i'm going to be this great manager. i'm going to run the country and the government in a way that you have never seen before. we are ten days into this administration and given those ten days, i don't think it's entirely a great advertisement for great management. >> michael, in terms of the political norms and the way that history you just described resonates in our current politics, after the saturday night massacre, after other crises that we have had where the department of justice and its independence, the very