in the running to be secretary of state. trump nearly picked him until he decided he wasn't up for that job and went with rex tillerson instead. he sees himself much more of a lawyer than a legal sort of wartime consigliary, a big thinker, as someone who wants to talk to the president about all sorts ofish other us and someone who wants to talk to you about all sorts of -- >> i don't know, i don't think he'll be calling any time soon. when we come back, you heard it here first. foreign policy, great phil rucker and his reporting about how the president used his bold moves on the world stage as a political insurance policy. also ahead, former cia director john brennan weighs in on the dangers of an impulsive president as the steward of our national security as well as those mccain excerpts just out that point to putin's motive to defeat the west. are we doing enough to protect ourselves? and for all the talk about a slow motion saturday night massacre, how about this. republicans obstructing justice in plain sight and with a green light from the speaker of the