capacities and he's clearly a very close confidant of the president and it doesn't bother me in the least. doesn't. >> it's in a context, rick, he fails to disclose meetings with the russians on his security forms. there are p in the team, 18 failures to disclose contacts with russia. jim comey is fired for investigating russia. mike pence is lied to about russian contacts, so the question really is why all of this secrecy? what is going on underneath? >> it's classic conflation. >> this is a common sense question. is it about the fact that donald trump has got financial interests that benefit his ogss and he doesn't want people to know that? is it payback for the russians helping him get elected? covering up the michael steel