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Contributing editor to the atlantic and cnn commentator. tim mack. good to see you. tim, let me begin you because this new book from nikki hailey, tru trump's former ambassador to the u.n. who is making stunning claims before the public hearings in this inquiry. she claims rex tillerson and john kelly attempted to recruit her to work around the president in an effort to save the coun country. writing according to the "washington post" who has a copy of the book, kelly and tillerson confided in me that when they resisted the president, they weren't being insubordinate, they were trying to save ...

I think by shifting to calling it prescribery and i've heard them call it extortion as well, they are trying to focus the american people that this is not a this for that. it's something that exceeds the bounds of executive propriety. the president of the united states withholding congressio l congressionally appropriated funds in order to achieve something in the next election. >> and tim, you know the republicans say they want, they have a list of witnesses that they want called and lindsey graham himself said you know, if hunter biden is not called then this whole process is a joke. democra...

Bush and john mccain preside presidential campaignings. host of "thor is cue er icircus on sunday. and kyra mckinney, political comm commentator. also tim mack, political commep ta commentator for npr. in this push to make gun control a major issue. in the past, democrats have tried to avoid this very devicive issue. but then aurora made it particularly poignant, topical for so many to speak out. so, you know, what overall would be driving the decision for candidates to say let's talk about gun control? >> the conversation about gun control has changed over the last decade. it used to be somet...

Tweets, congratulating each other for being in the ration. does that set the tone of civility? >> i think you're going to see it being a much more civil -- we're not going to have someone saying the kinds of things he said during the republican primaries. i just want to go to one other thing when we talk about this gun debate here in the country. remember that mark kelly got not race for snaenate in arizona. he and gabby are national leader it is on this issue. just by him running for senate in 2020, that's really powerful. i hope the democrats will push the nra to explain how it is they were ...

Wanted to address, even in a marginal way and he did that over these christmas holidays. but if i can return a little bit to the kind of chaos issue that you brought up, this isn't just an issue with the cabinet level appointments. this is also an issue with senior staff. if you look at the turnover that's happened among senior aides to the president, you've had a turnover rate of nearly two-thirds of his senior staff. this is unprecedented. most modern presidents over their first four years in office don't go through the same level of turnover that you see in the first two years in the trump ...