get to the bottom of what's going on. but that's really difficult. at the heart of this, the story is a mystery. are reporters covering it responsibility? joining me is my panel now. max, you were a foreign policy adviser to mccain in 2008, romney in 2012, now you're a trump critic. you look at this week, what does it add up to in your mind? >> i think you delivered a very good summary, brian. we are at a point we are debating for the first time in a serious way whether the president of the united states is disloyal to america. whether the president of the united states is an agent of a foreign power. now to be sure we have not had proof of that, but there is evidence of it. and you're seeing very serious people -- this is the kind of accusation in the past was only