americans watched yesterday, the director of national intelligence, dan coats, was candid with andrea mitchell. some officials close to the president concerned it could rub president trump the wrong day. what are you hearing? pull back the curtain. what are they saying in the west wing? reporter: president trump doesn t like to be criticized and certainly not publicly. alas, dan coats won t be at the white house for the intel briefing. he is sending his principal deputy to do the briefing with president trump this morning. in the past, coats has been one of his main briefers. peter? hans nichols is at the white house for us. thank you very much. i ll see you there shortly. joining me from aspen is jeremy bash, national security analyst, and former chee eer ch staff at the cia. panel for the hour, gabby, white house correspondent. i usually worry about the last name, but i botched the first name today. and eugene scott from the