a blow that will last much longer than cornstein's tenure and have repercussions far beyond hungary. >> really fascinating to hear this story, but political appointees as we know are often inexperienced, so how is this situation different? >> reporter: that's an important point, alisyn, on both sides of the aisle. president obama famously appointed a producer of the soap opera "the bold and the beautiful" to be his ambassador to hungary. this is nothing new. the difference is traditionally, even if an ambassador is a political appointee, is politically very inexperienced, they work closely with the diplomatic service, with the staff, with those career diplomats and work towards implementing u.s. policy and, you know, forwarding or fulfilling u.s. interests in those areas. with cornstein what you see is he's really cut from the same clothe as his boss.