and the president doing a video to try to contra kick his own white house chief of staff. this is what we know has been defined from the beginning from incompetent dishonesty. we have seen all of that play out in the last seven to ten days in the run up to this crisis and that is the problem when you have no credibility to begin with. >> krezability and power, it is important because the united states has adversaries around the world. what is the consequence of not really knowing what is going on with the president. and maybe not knowing is one thing, but having contradictory information, for all of the adversaries out there. >> i think it is about the confidence that the afternoon american nas their own government. we had a lot of issues in the past few years about how much americans trust the government. how much they trust that the government is actually there to help them, not hurt them. that the government is worth that ving at the size that we have. there is all of these different question that have abounded throughout the country. when the average citizen cot have a