adam schiff, the chairman of the house intelligence committee, was just delivering the universal judgment of intelligence professionals in washington, which was that sue gordon was the right person for the post. >> i'm glad that you quoted donny trump, jr., who has dedicated his life to studying intelligence matters in u.s. foreign policy. so the president's pick for acting dni, admiral joseph maguire, he is -- has a strong military and counterterrorism background. he's certainly more qualified than congressman john ratcliffe who the president wanted in that post permanently. >> right. i mean, when i think about this appointment, i'm reminded of a version of churchill's quip about america. in the case of trump i would say that he sometimes does the right thing, but only after exhausting all the other alternatives. and, of course, in the case of the dni job, he tried to appoint john ratcliffe. the republican congressman who falsified his background and had no qualifications whatsoever in intelligence, and now, you know, trump got rid of sue gordon. but at least mercifully the