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Dan coats has been a benefit not just as a job as director of national intelligence. you know, he came in with lots of concerns around the communicate as to whether or not he would keep the intelligence community out of the political fray and work to speak truth to power and that's exactly what he's done. so i think this is an unfortunate development for the intelligence community because there's been a shield there between the ic and the political world, and i think it's going to be very important for the president to pick someone who helps to maintain that. but based on some of things that h...

Ultimately not impeached. the conversations around impeachment, the first ones weren't even about watergate, high crimes and misdemeanors as it pertained to other conduct. if you look at the president's conduct, you could take the president's immigration policies, babies in vans for nine hours. such target rich if you want to look at evidence. i understand, and believe me as a former communicator, i appreciate and sympathize with the challenge to get air time, bandwidth on the public's weary and anxious attention span. it would seem there's nothing more urgent than peeling apart the public con...

Obviously the special counsel said there was none. >> but it doesn't explain a lot of the bread crumbs that were spread out throughout the filings. why did paul manafort share polling data with a russian intel agent? why did rod rosenstein say in his memo that was unredacted that mueller account investigation collusion as it pertained to manafort and his meetings with russians? it didn't answer a lot of those questions we've had on the team, and that, i think, is what democrats are going to be pressing for. also the fact it says there's not evidence to conclude the president committed a crime ...

Happened in the 2016 election. and there is still questions about why donald trump, why he would ask russia to find hillary clinton's e-mails. we know from a mueller indictment that that very night that russians did try to hack into her personal e-mails, why did he do that? why did he wave the wikileaks findings around so much? why was he so willing to use information that was potentially ill-gotten from a foreign government to slander his opponent? >> well, you know, the thing is, donald trump may just be a political version of mr. magoo. he may just stumble -- and you are too young to know w...

Pressure prosecutors in that u.s. attorney's office as it pertained to the michael cohen case. there are reports that the president may have contacted matthew whitaker by phone and askedessentially if a different prosecutor to be put in charge and use his role to make that change in that u.s. attorney's office. those reports have led to a number of sort of shoes waiting to drop because that's a very s serious allegation for the president given what appears to be his own potential legal scrutiny and jeopardy related to the u.s. attorney's office. while we're waiting to find out what will happen...