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Metrics for that, but i'll take it for trump personally, i think hope hicks leaving is going to hit him hard. she had been with him since the beginning of the campaign. there's just one other person in the white house who has been with him that long. and so, you know, he is increasingly isolated. morale is really bad in the white house. and without, you know, that one other person to control trump he may be increasingly volatile. for trump himself her departure is pretty bad. >> professor zelizer, you have a piece at cnn.com that i recommend that people read. but let me grab one paragraph. the...

That, you know, northeastern liberal establishment. >> yeah. no downside for him at all. the press will cover it a little bit. his supporters will think it's funny or just ignore it completely. you know, this week that we were talking about, you know, any other presidency it would be considered a disastrous week but like everyone has been saying he's had so many of these weeks that in a lot of ways it's more noise, just another week in his presidency. >> julian zelizer, as you look back on the week just transpired, the same question i put to amanda earlier, what stands out in your mind? >> wha...

Could really be a disaster for this administration would come from special prosecutor robert mueller. i want to know what you think. politically speaking, politically speaking, was this past week a disaster for president trump? joining me now, salena zito who writes for "the new york post." julian zelizer a professor at princeton university. the aforementioned harry enten, writer and analyst and amanda terkel, washington bureau chief for the huffington post. harry, explain the numbers to me, what's doing on? >> the president has a loyal base of supporters and everyone who hated him before the ...

Analyst julian zelizer. first, brian, to you. what exactly do we know about the circumstances of his death? had he been ill? what has he been doing recently? >> we know very little. he had been ill for a number of years, even before he resigned in disgrace last summer he had been ill, but we don't know the specifics about the cause of death. >> and professor zelizer, you have an op ed on cnn.com talking about the role that roger ailes had in reshaping not just the media landscape, but the political landscape. >> absolutely. you don't get president trump without roger ailes. he changed the kind...