and in the case of andrew mccabe, the idea was he lost the trust of his superiors because his wife chose to take money from the clintons. there's this idea now that the president is endorsing the fact that if you have an employee whose spouse didn't vote for trump or doesn't support donald trump or even if you find out your own employee didn't vote for donald trump or doesn't support him, they could be undermined public trust. he's essentially asking for people to have loyalty toward him as a personal person instead of having a loyalty to the constitution which is -- which is essentially i think unprecedented. that's a very hard thing even for republicans to really get at. it's going to be interesting how republicans couch that if we see movement on this in the future, if congress is going to start letting cabinet members fire people because of political views that are personally held. >> all right. yamiche alcindor and jose barro. thanks. and president trump spent a lot of time talking about the economy and tax cuts. how much that will matter by the time voters head to the polls in november. stay with us. >> this nagging sinking feeling,