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Trump that the republicans need to turn out in this race to be able to hold a seat that they should hold. the president doesn't like this candidate. the republicans don't like this candidate but it is a seat they should be able to hold and when you have outside groups pouring millions of dollars in, so when you feel like you're not going to win, you try to get people motivated and fear is an awesome motivator in politics and we've seen this not just in race but other races. in virginia we saw this. it's the hottest issue and the thing that's burning in the people's minds. it's not 67. >> and c...

Embarrass his president. >> i don't know that the story is true but i know that there are comparable things that have gone on. you've got now a skel laconstel of people who are talking and, in many ces, stunned by what they are seeing around the president and by the president himself. it's an extraordinarily dangerous dynamic and in the case of gorsuch that is an interesting strange story he is being so hope about what ed but if you got people in the cabinet and people in the white house who are behaving like this, donald trump thinks he can control everything he thinks he is king of all media...

Changed the way that merkel and our east european allies are thinking about the next few years. i don't think -- that interview he did the other day with the two journalists, like he hasn't gained any knowledge about foreign policy in the last two years. saying the same things he said two years ago. i understand that he's a different kind of candidate and politician, but at some point you do expect him to engage in some of the basic diplomatic niceties -- there's a reason they exist. when you're president, your words can endanger the country. is it good he's unpredictable? some limited circums...

With anything. >> david gergen probably one of the first questions at press conference tomorrow. to ed's point, he said he thought president being human and compassionate. what do you think? what do you say to that? >> it's one of these hard calls a president of the united states occasionally has to make. barack obama is by nature a compassionate man. i think he understands she has been suffering. she did cooperate with authorities. at the same time people in the national security zone as the president himself was saying a few years ago they -- a lot of lives are spent and often lost trying to...

Preston, ryan lizza and edward j. epstein. ryan you wanted to make a point before the break. >> i want to follow-up on what ed was talking about, the way that manning released the stuff he stole and that snowden released what he took. manning gave it all to wikileaks and posted it all unfiltered without any journalists looking at it or making editorial decisions. snowden more responsible. vetted by journalists and not released on his own. i think that's important difference that frankly makes the manning commutation a little bit more surprising. >> yeah. david let's talk about the new world or...