he's got to be fired. and this is a sort of preemptive anticipation of how the president is going to react based on their experience previously. look, if you were going to create a moment to engineer someone being fired by president trump, you can't do much better than going to aspen among the national security and foreign policy elite and effectively being in on the joke that there is this guy who nobody in the room has much respect for who is conducting foreign policy in, again, universally acknowledged among the people in the room, a reckless way. and then dan coats made i thought four pretty stunning points, although people who pay attention to the intelligence won't find them that stunning. the first one was he thought it was a mistake for the president to meet alone with vladimir putin. the second is that he obviously was dismayed by what the president said.