from, republican senator bob corker said, "they're in a downward spiral." speaker paul ryan didn't defend the president, the statement said, "we have no way to know what was said but protecting our nation's secrets is paramount." it's a bit of a different tone, why aren't we hearing from more republicans coming out to say, if this is, indeed, true, this is a very serious and grave situation? >> well, this is their moment and i'm hopeful tomorrow they will. this just all broke. people were literally shocked by this and, of course, we also have to get all the facts and establish the truth. i'm a former prosecutor. i believe that's important. but in this case, there were members of the u.s. senate who are not on the intelligence committee like myself who were there bright and early for a briefing on this laptop issue over a month ago, and we didn't hear some of that information and we didn't complain because we understand as a member of the judiciary committee, i hear certain things about judicial nominations that other people don't hear, and people in the intelligence committee, they have the special intelligence