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Here? >> that is a good question. and you're right because i don't answer that question in the story, joe. there is a lot of context and back story to the inspector general for the dhs. first off, he was appointed by donald trump. second off, he has been trying to hold on to his job under joe biden. but also sort of stay underneath the radar. he's been criticized for failing to properly investigate a lot of things that happened during the trump administration. and i think about a year ago i wrote a story in which his staff had gone as whistleblowers to congress complaining that he had blocked ...

Coordination of ukraine was disastrous and the circumstance on yovanovitch's dismissal were shameful. that's in reference to what sondland said, she was not happy with the president so you are seeing several people raise concerns over what sondland said. >> first off, what you said is long. second off, we have never had coffee. good to hear from you. joining me right now cnn political analyst, national security attorney brad moss who has worked with many whistleblower clients in the past and a former spokesman for the state and defense department john kirby. guys thanks for being here. margare...

That leave republicans on capitol hill? the interesting element of that, i just spoke with senator john corn cornyn. i asked him what's his sense of the president's broader strategy to find a way out of this? he said i don't know right now. that's where things stand. everybody on the republican and democratic side is waiting for the president to weigh in on what the next step should be. republicans don't want to undercut him, but they acknowledge two things. first and foremost, the meeting and the president's willingness to take the blame on himself for a potential shutdown was problematic for...

Bipartisan. >> all right, let's talk more about all of this. joining me right now, basel smikel back with us and alice stewart. the president says it can be a bipartisan effort. but given that republicans got no support from democrats on taxes or health care, do you see that infrastructure is something different? >> it should be. it's no surprise democrats like to spend money. so this is a good opportunity to help -- to give them the opportunity to spend money. look, if we were able to have more democrats come to the table and work, i think that would be the third ring of a very successful thr...

A five gallon bucket. normally a device like that will not contain really well an explosive device. you want to tamp those explosives so they're in a metal container to create blast-over pressures and that will explode your device, whatever it is you have in there. so that leaves either an incendiary device or gas device which could explode itself or dissipate itself in that plastic bucket. our first thought, and i was discussing this with many -- a couple of international terrorism experts. we were chatting this morning. the first thought was, it was a gas device. something which can be activ...