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Post." chuck rosenberg, let me start with you and what i heard from a former u.s. intelligence official today that donald trump's now compilation of seemingly bizarre, seemingly random, seemingly, let me just be blunt, just stupid comments about russia, are probably at this point very likely under scrutiny by people investigating his relationship, his contacts, his coordination, if you will, with russia. >> my goodness, nicolle, they would have to be. you know, i think we wondered why michael flynn was debriefed 19 times. that struck us all as an extraordinary number. but maybe now we have a b...

That's why mr. mueller needs to do his work. but it is extraordinary. i just want to underscore where you started. it is just absolutely extraordinary what president trump says about russia and russian history and russian policy. and i want to also underscore, it's separate from the entire trump administration. i can't think of another time in history where you've had such a disconnect between the president and the rest of his administration. that demands a full-throated explanation. >> well, we didn't get to, and i haven't seen you since secretary mattis resigned over the syria decision. >> y...

Whatever mike pence brings to me, sure, that's nice, but at the end of the day, if donald trump says he's not going to do anything with that, there's no point in moving forward with that. so it comes down to the point that the small part of america which is holding donald trump's feet to the fire on the wall, either he gives up on trying to appease them or he actually does let this thing go on for months or years. >> right before the holidays, a source close to the president -- i called them after the mattis resignation and basically said wtf is going on with your friend? and he said, he's sca...

Afghanistan in 1979, you look at the defense of annexing crimea because, in trump's words, it is russian because everyone speaks russian there, you look at the helsinki presser which ambassador mcfaul pointed out, you look at sharing classified information and saying, i'm so relieved now that that nut job comey is out of the picture, so much pressure relieved from me, what do you see? >> this really goes back to the point that chuck made early on, which is that if you are investigating this situation and looking at it big picture, you're trying to figure out as an investigator is this presiden...

That's why mr. mueller needs to do his work, but it is extraordinary. i just want to underscore where you started. it is just absolutely extraordinary what president trump says about russia and russian history and russian policy. and i want to also underscore it is separate from the entire trump administration. i can't think of another time in history where you've had such a disconnect between the president and the rest of his administration. that demand a full-throated explanation. >> well, we didn't get to and i haven't seen you since secretary mattis resigned over the syria decision. >> yes...