nation honorably in a number of positions, but this president, any president, has the right to have the people around him he decides. the only people who are elected in the west wing are the president and vice president. everybody else is staff. they serve at the pleasure of the president, the same with the cabinet officials. i think that's very important to point out. secondly, i would say there's no question but that the world is a very dangerous place. that america faces a very grave and complicated global threat environment. i think it's more dangerous than at any time since the end of world war ii. but the way in which we're responding to that, the way in which we're dealing with it, the extent to which, for example, president trump has been willing to walk away from dangerous deals, when he came into office, the united states was a party to the iran nuclear accords, the united states was a party to the inf treaty. both of those agreements were agreements that made us less safe. the inf treaty only restricted the united states because the russians cheated and it didn't restrict the chinese. the jcpoa, as we now know, the iranians have continued to cheat. will continue to cheat, and then of course, we saw this horrific