speech got tremendous applause. by the way, speaker pelosi was in the room too. when she stood up to wave, everybody thunderous applause for her. and there was a good news message too. there were, as you already said, 50 members of congress there. democrats, republicans from the senate, from the u.s. congress. and i heard lots of positive remarks, especially about some of the young new members that had just been elected that came to this meeting to say we are still with you and to remind our european allies that the trump administration does not always speak for all americans. >> now to what was your last job in government and these comments in the mccabe book. the president apparently siding with putin over u.s. intelligence. and let me ask you this way. how do you, if you're putin, get the american president to side with you? what does this mean putin has succeeded at, if true?