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I think it is. so you wrote a great primer at the end of last week. and i'm so glad you wrote it because i had to get off of twitter a lot over the weekend because there are people who i was friends with and allies with before donald trump came into town that i still want to be friends with and allies with after donald trump leaves town. but my god, some of the excuses -- please talk about some of the straw men being set up. but in the miller interview, he is accusing the deep state of being involved when the donald trump appointed ig and the donald trump appointed acting dni both said the whi...

He hasn't done that. even though he says he doesn't know who it is, it's a political hack, they're out to get me. we've seen this playbook before when they stall, discredit the source so when it does come out, at least his people are inclined to say, forget about it. >> we've seen something before in this playbook, too, that the act in question may not be a thing. if it is something within the scope of his powers as president, then it will be a that's just how he talks moment. then what the controversy involves around, it's not just that, it's his or his aides' behavior around what the initial...

Defining the person in stark political terms. i think at another point said, some of my aides have read this complaint and were laughing about it. so i don't know which it is. >> the issue is we don't know. adam schiff, who is chairman of the house intelligence committee, got ahead of the skis saying there is collusion before there was any evidence of collusion. you get the reason why the trump administration might not trust adam schiff. but there are other ways. there is this thing called the law where if you have an urgent complaint, the i.g. at -- the trump-appointed i.g. for the trump admi...

Process and let the i.g. report this complaint to the appropriate classified intelligence committees, then the complaint would have been vetted. they would have been able to review it, it would have been done in a bipartisan way, the temperature would be down, we wouldn't have these immediate calls for release of the transcript, which that would be quite unusual and not something we want from an intelligence perspective get in the habit of doing. so fighting the process as laid out in law, they have actually created a crisis that didn't necessarily need to exist. >> this is just the allegation...