i'm told it was not cleared by the white house though i imagine normal practice to be to give them a heads up that it was coming occupy. but they did not clear this statement itself with the white house. >> that's not the only choice facing dan coats the director of national intelligence. larry fire who ran the situation room under president george w. bush tweeted this afternoon quote with trump's reut pudiation of u.s. intelligence dan coats should resign in protest and disgust. unquote. do you agree, josh? >> there are two parts there, there is the principle and then the idea of can i be effective in this position? on one hand you have the president of the united states undercutting the intelligent community and the director by standing next to vladimir putin and telling the world i believe this former kgb agent over my own agencies. i think it would be difficult to stay in the job when the