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Rather be in? would you rather be in the battle over the second spot or in the lead like joe biden? >> oh, no, i'd rather always be in the lead, not a question. i'd like to be the person who's on the rise and close to the lead but they're not -- in these polls they're not quite close enough yet to make me choose to be the second. i always want to be number one. joe biden, there is this notion that he is -- he's comforting to people. when you have a crazy person in the white house who's making us not just insecure from domestically but internationally as well and all of this stuff that comes ou...

Exnational security advisor john bolton speaking at a closed door event tonight here in new york and taking the opportunity to bash his former boss. let's discuss now. jeremy diamond is here. cnn's jeremy diamond. before we get to bolton's comments, i have to ask you if the white house is responding to all of the breaking news about a whistle-blower in the intelligence community. are they saying anything? >> don, we have reached out to the white house. so far they have not responded and the office of the director of national intelligence has declined to comment to us at this hour, don, but obv...

Already dishing apparently on the president of the united states, his former boss. he didn't name him directly but according to one attendee who spoke with cnn, john bolton was extremely critical of the president's diplomatic endeavor with north korea, critical of his invitation to the taliban to come to camp david which was ultimately scrapped at the last minute. according to that a tenl de, bolton didn't have anything to say about this attendant. it shows that obviously john bolton is willing to criticize his former boss, something that not every former white house official is willing to do....

Good to have you both. mark, i want to start with this new development cnn reported tonight. a spokesperson for nancy pelosi, she said in a private meeting tonight that after his performance yesterday cory lewandowski could have been held in contempt she said right then and there. that did not happen. is she signaling if you are going to do it, you need to be tough. if you are going to do this and go through this whole investigation or inquiry, you've got to be tough? >> well, don, you know, in a party that's famously disorganized and lacks strategic coherence, nancy pelosi has got it. and, yo...

The president. i don't think they should have had the hearing at all. there's two words i haven't heard is impeachment or mueller, not once. >> right. >> the public has moved on. the congress needs to as well. >> it's interesting. i think the democrats realize there were important points made. there were important points admitting that the president did something that was annism pea p impeachable offense, obstruction of justice. who saw that? >> of course they said out loud which a lot of us thought, they lied to the media and they're proud of it. >> let's bring in ann. you remember this momen...