a day that the manafort jury is going to start debating whether or not to convict manafort, a day where the questions of the n-word tape and a day after omarosa and why release it today do you think? >> you know, i think someone wants to muck up the news cycle, jake. look. i definitely -- i think this is ridiculous. this is nothing short of extraordinary and we should all be scared about the state of our democracy. the president sent his white house press secretary out there today to basically poop on the people from the press secretary podium. and not only threaten, like they didn't make a threat but a promise. they're snatching, john brennan's national security. he was in the situation room heroes took out bin laden. what is happening here? what is congress going to do? congress, as i like to remind people, a co-equal branch of government.