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Give them too much, do you freeze out people like congressman beutler who says, i can't do this at this point? do you lose some of the moderates? >> dana, the big news is that the moderates who were at one point willing to support paul ryan, willing to vote for compromised legislation, amid all this chaos have decided to come on record and say they cannot support whatever emerges this evening from the house. there are as many house republicans as there are members of the freedom caucus. ryan is in a no win situation. to appease the hard right members of his caucus, he's going to lose a lot of ...

National security community views russia as a threat. and not just on russia issues, on north korea and others. so, you're hearing that from a broad base of folks in the outgoing administration. i will say fair to say the incoming administration does dispute that. >> mark preston, you've heard from rex tillerson also say he's the secretary of state nominee he hasn't really had a substantive major discussion with the president-elect on russia. >> right, and i think we've seen this with all of his nominees where we've seen differences where whether wl it be on health care or issues on climate ch...

The president, not the president-elect, because it was to happen after the inauguration. are now distancing themselves from that. what are the chances that, even something like this, stirring up this old story, is a distraction? >> it could be a distraction. i think both are right. he is thin-skinned and worried about his reputation, i think. but also, i mean, maybe he is trying to distract from it. good luck. it's a big blinking red flag. >> it is a red flag because don jr. and eric have played adviso advisory roles for the president going forward. even though they may not take a formal role ...

Particular raid there is the possibility they may have hoped somebody else was there. i have to say it's on the far end of probability that they expected to really capture him alive. this was initially a capture mission, u.s. officials say, because isis leadership they worship death frankly. it's unlikely they'd just surrender and hand themselves over. they now have his wife and laptop but on the balance of it all you're seeing a very high-risk maneuver a rare thing frankly that either signifies a whole new era in u.s. special forces operations against isis leadership like we saw in afghanista...

Christie said trump should step up. >> does he have to go? >> i don't know how you survive this one. >> trump not pulling the trigger on pruitt. did you hear something else. he also said pruitt never should have been there in first place which raises a really important question. it's not just that the president doesn't know how to fire someone. christie is saying the president doesn't know how to hire the right person. look at the people who have been accused of wasting taxpayer dollars on things like private jets and vacations. steve manuchin. tom price, ryan zenke and ben carson. remember th...