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Juan, ratcliffe has a 96% lifetime rating from the american conservative union. what do you make of a staunch conservative being nominated to a position that's traditionally been nonpartisan and given to people with significant intel backgrounds? >> you're right, the tradition of the director of national intelligence has been one where the professional assuming that role has either been a former ambassador or had a long standing role in the intelligence community and has had a gravitas in independence unto themselves that allows them to be an adviser to the president, to speak truth to power, ...

His departure tweeted by the president yesterday. a career politician with no intelligence experience, staunch conservative, a trump loyalist, whose fierce protection of the president was on full display at the mueller hearing on wednesday. >> i agree with the chairman this morning when he said donald trump is not above the law. he's not. but he damn sure shouldn't be below the law which is where volume two of this report puts him. >> senate minority leader chuck schumer slammed the president's pick in a statement. "it's clear that representative ratcliffe was selected because he exhibited bli...

Country on fire, so many of us who have listened to that argument from our republican friends who tell us don't take away our ability to try to talk to him and influence him quietly. we're going to call that out as the bs that it is and try to get them to finally do the things that many did in the 1950s to finally marginalize joe mccarthy. it was the republicans who did that, but not democrats ultimately. thing is a week in which there are probably harder conversations in the senate between democrats and republican senators than there have been in the past. >> speaking of your republican frien...