russia investigation by the special counsel. but now cnn has reporting that the president is flat out telling his friends and associates this, that, you know, the end goal is to discredit this investigation, what is your reaction to that? >> well, it is an interesting thing because the president is one of the very few people involved in supporting this memo, because, of course, chairman devin nunes supports it, lots of republicans do. he's the one guy who gets to go in front of the american people, apparently, and tell blatant falsehoods, to lie. this morning we learned from the president that the state of the union address was the largest ever, that, of course, is far from the truth. and so it is not at all surprising to me he gets a memo he feels though it is full of falsehoods and i will tell you it is full of falsehoods, it is a shoddy and poorly written memo that will be very rapidly refuted by the facts and by the ten page memo that the democrats wrote when we saw it, and by the way, refuted by the fbi and the