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Don't get mad, get e*trade and start trading today. that was fast. it was just sunday afternoon when donald trump announced by tweet that republican congressman john ratcliff was his pick to replace dan cotes as dr director of dni. rector of dni. from apparently padding his resume and rounding up his traffic record to his lack of experience in national security or intelligence, to say nothing of the lukewarm reception he got from mitch mcconnell. if you feel like you've heard this song before with a trump pick for a big job imploding out of the gate, you're not wrong.

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The xfinity store is here. and it's simple, easy, awesome. in the press reports donald trump met privately with vladimir putin and no one in the u.s. government has the full story about what was discussed. would this put you in a disadvantaged position in terms of understanding russia's efforts to advance its agenda against the united states? >> well, senator, clearly this is a sensitive issue and an issue we ought to talk about this afternoon. i look forward to discussing that in a closed session. >> closed session. welcome back to "hardball." that was ron wyden with a timely question to da...

You think to yourself whose side is he on? >> yeah. >> obviously it's a huge problem. it's not surprising to those of us who followed it. >> last july, just as an example of this, the director of national intelligence dan cotes is asked about the helsinki meeting, about the meetings that took place with vladimir putin. one would think at least the dni would know what happened in the meetings. here's what he said. >> i don't know what happened in that meeting. i think as time goes by and the president has mentioned some things that happened in the meeting. i think we'll learn more. >> we have n...

Long history as a sort of nuts and bolts republican conservative and washington figure, who is not a flashy kind of guy. he obviously, as bill said, exactly right on target, you can see dan cotes was extraordinarily uncomfortable. >> when i read this it reminded me the scene from "mommy dearest" where she beats her daughter because she said her daughter you deliberately embarrass me in front of reporter. not the wire hanger beating but the reporter incident. but go on. >> but don, here's the thing -- >> april can chime in on this, but i'm struck, john kelly is really out of his, chief of staff...