operations and they won't take back any of their assessments. dan coats, miake pompeo is the same. but what we're seeing now is a different context. we are seeing it with the president of the united states literally almost -- let me retract that. almost groveling at the feet of vladimir putin. and now these professionals are finally saying, hey, wait a minute, all that stuff they have been saying for the last two years that's suspicious is starting to look suspicious to us. if you look at trump's base, they don't believe a word of it. many of them, if you go to some of the more extreme places like breitbart and other places, they think whatever the president says is great. >> and how dangerous is that? >> it is extremely dangerous because we have to live in a grounded reality. and the men and women of the intelligence community and law enforcement in the united states, their job as part of the civil service is to give us that reality. and if we have a third of the