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He's fuming at all these things. it's what he's done. forced mcmaster out. mcgann hn is leaving. mcgahn has been pretty compliant in things and still has said no several times. sessions, obviously, rosenstein, the entire justice department he's not speaking to. it's not just that he's unhappy or psychologically challenged. it's a crazy administration. he's running an administration where he's getting -- i think there are fewer guardrails now than a year ago. and he seems more contemptuous the notion that anyone should ever tell him maybe you shouldn't do this, sir, and less tolerant of that. s...

Them to republican lawmakers. the president had this to say earlier telling the hill, quote. i have had many people ask me to release them. not that i didn't like the idea but i wanted to wait and see where it was all going. i hope to put this up as one of my crowning achievements that i was able to expose something that is truly a cancer in our country end quote. new york republican peter king is on the house intel committee. how are you doing and good morning to you. you've been on tv for months saying make them public. what changed in his calculation now to do it? >> i think the president h...

Political reasons. and so how likely are they to trust us in the future with the most important stuff they have? and the answer is, not very likely. so there's damage to the immediate case and there's damage to our long-term institutional interests as part of a larger intelligence community. very disheartening, brian. >> matt, if you had to reach, could you make a case that any part of the public good, the public interest, is served by lifting the veil on any of these communications? >> you know, i think you could make the case that the fisa, you know, the entire fisa process does deserve some...

Public sphere for partisan political reasons. and so how likely are they to trust us in the future with the most important stuff they have? and the answer is, not very likely. so there's damage to the immediate case and there's damage to our long-term institutional interests as part of a larger intelligence community. very disheartening, brian. >> matt, if you had to reach, could you make a case that any part of the public good, the public interest, is served by lifting the veil on any of these communications? >> you know, i think you could make the case that the fisa, you know, the entire fis...

Does deserve some added measure of transparency. you know, i don't think the president is making a good-faith case here. you kind of have to remove him from the process because his motives have been pretty transparent from the beginning. there were advocates a thet theu saying there ought to be more transparency around fisa applications. this particular fisa application has already been reviewed to redact the most sensitive information, and what could be made public has been made public. it's the first time in history that happened and it only happened because the president declassified that n...