they fumble the ball on this? as much as we are looking ahead to see, how do we stop it in the future? you have to look in the past to look for clues to see where they mishandled the situation, and, two, there are three lines of investigation coming out of this. right? russian meddling. there is perhaps collusion and then there's obstruction of justice and a line in "the washington post" story today i think is very relevant where it talks about how everything la been clouded basically by the fight over the obstruction of justice or perhaps collusion. and that's why i think the american people are not able to grasp on in this situation. >> mark, interesting is, where is the pressure and what is the pressure, on the administration to retaliate against russia, and at the same time prevent it happening in the future? the white house doesn't really speak to that, because there is a question about what the obama administration did or failed to do, or was unwilling to do. where's the pressure from republicans? you know, with regard to how the