this too shall pass regardless of how long this administration is in, that the institutions are strong enough? >> well, i think right now we've seen our institutions bent, contorted, but they haven't broken. and we had a midterm election that allowed one form of accountability in terms of house accountability to be put back in place that didn't exist for the first two years. and that at least puts the brakes on what can be congressionally blessed. but, you know, eight years is very different from four years. the hemorrhaging of expertise from our scientific agencies, the hemorrhaging of linguistic and regional expertise from our diplomatic corps at just the time we see conflict spreading and rising and, again, americans living out in the world and being at stake in that world, we can't afford from my standpoint certainly eight years of this. but also i think it's incumbent on the individuals who, you