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Move out, what do generals want? a fourth star. he may generate some kind of appointment here and move on, but it's an optics problem. doesn't look good if the national security adviser clocks out every quarter or two. >> you heard sanders say the tweet the president sent out, a lot of people interpreted it as undercutting mcmaster. the response given about russia at the conference. it was just an addendum, liked the response mcmaster gave, but doesn't it just undercut? >> of course it does. it's ground hog day. president trump undercut tillerson and mcmaster. that happens, and somehow we have...

Counsel. if he's still bringing charges, that's off, at least for now. >> i think it gives them more leverage as they try to negotiate a plea agreement with gates. i think, also, this is just the fact that more time elapsed, and the indictment is being enriched. they are getting more information from a variety of different sources. i'm not surprised to see this happen again later. >> let's talk about president trump and hr mcmaster, a confounding relationship. this would be, if they replaced him, would be the third -- the next guy or gal would be the third national security adviser for preside...

>> well it's just going to -- we're going to have to see what is going to fly with republicans on capitol hill. they're not doing any bills with democrats, they're not taking into view the minority voices on these decisions so it's going to be a question of what priorities conservatives have. they're in the driver's seat. they won't let the president and the leadership do infrastructure because they've spent too much money. >> but there's an optics problem, right? with cutting into snap and medicare or medicaids. >> not to the freedom caucus. >> while we are cutting corporate taxes and the tax...

Mike baker, mister baker, good to see you this morning as i want to read a partial fbi statement on the memo saying, quote, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy. in light of these comments by the fbi should this memo be made public? >> we are in strange territory. normally i would air on the side of caution and on the side of the fbi. a lot of former, current agents have a great deal of respect for them, although men and women on the streets but this is a bigger issue. they have to release this memo and the reason is, this will s...

Messages of the secret society, when you open up an investigation and you have this broad playing field and it's not a narrow focus -- this is what happens. it ranges all over the place. what we've got a problem with is both sides have a hypothesis or premise that they would dearly love to prove. you can't run an investigation that way. whether it's the house intel committee or anyone else, aside from the mueller investigation, they're chasing a premise. and you can't do that. you have to build your investigation on actual facts rather than speculation. otherwise, the whole thing is shaky. the...