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But we are doing that and the democrats, and what you saw from senator schumer and others is purely and simply grandstanding, that's all it is. >> mike: a big change coming at the top of our intelligence apparatus. your former colleague senator dan coats is going to be leaving. congressman john ratcliffe is coming in. some have complained that he may be to partisan. secretary of state mike pompeo believes in him. take a listen to this. >> is very smart. i'm very confident he'll do a good job. i remember people saying i would be too political to be the cia director too. i hope that history will...

Achievements. exposing this corruption. >> exposing this corruption. he's talking about the fbi and peter strzok and people like that. it's remarkable. he talks more about that publicly than he does about russian election interference, which is still going on. >> that's right. and, you know, it is still an open question. it's part of the reason the democrats have a number of investigations open. it's one of the reasons we may be barreling down the path towards the "i" word. that ugly word, as he called it because we know that the russians, not only did they interfere in 2016 and in 2018 and fr...

Abuse of our intelligence apparatus. there is no other word toot describe this. what gregg jarrett said was right on the money. he was going to investigate the investigators? >> sean: congressman, we know russian lies were used to influence the election, and we know who for them. we know they were uncorroborated, and we know they were used for a fisa applicatio application. we know there was a russian interference. by the way, devin nunes warned us about it in 2014. we know it's a hostile regime. we know about ukrainian attempt to influence the election. why didn't mueller, if he is concerned ...

I would like to see putin hacking with pencils. >> our election process is very decentralized at the local and state level. there does not indicate any evidence that a single voting machine was hacked. the institutions that were most susceptible to foreign meddling where our media, law enforcement, intelligence apparatus, and fortunately, washington has very little appetite to deal with that reality that these were the institutions that were susceptible to foreign meddling. little concerned about how to avoid it in the future. >> bret: i will say to see all those folks out there, we all know w...

Before the american people both during the campaign and as president to explain what he wants from this relationship with russia, why it is so important that we have a better relationship with vladimir putin. he sort of suggested that putin could certainly help in syria and in north korea. but we have no sense of what strategy really donald trump is trying to advance. result is twofold. donald trump is so isolated right now with regard to putin, even members of his own intelligence, you know, intelligence apparatus. people at the white house, they are sort of sending messages that basically, y...