people who are -- want to participate in our democratic process, including democrats, republicans, independence, our law enforcement, intelligence and military communities. nicole, let's make clear what's happening here, the president is willing to risk the lives of the people who are defending our country so he can spin a political yarn to feed, as ron noted, political conspiracy theories. because i guess he thinks it helps him politically. that is a dereliction of duty, that is an abuse of office. i think the congressional intelligence and judiciary committees have to be all over this one. they have to call to the hill the leaders of the intelligence community and the justice department and ask them exactly what motivated this unprecedented power grab. >> the dni, dan coates weighed in with a statement this afternoon, i'm confident the attorney general will work with the intelligence community in