it was an intent to nominate and that was six or seven weeks ago. we had stories yesterday about fbi checks not being complete. so it almost i don t want to sound conspiratorial, but it sounds like maybe there was more to it than him just looking after the family. that signalled to you that there was something awry? he s been he was the deputy secretary of defense and then acting for a long time, since mattis resigned and yet still these fbi checks weren t complete. that is not normal. there s probably just something there. maybe that also helped lead him to this decision. maybe he just determined it was going to be too hard to get through a confirmation battle. anyone in government will tell you you need to have a secretary of defense. the actings thing is a problem for the trump administration. the acting thing is especially a problem when it comes to the defense secretary. so let s talk about who s now going to be the next acting and then we ll talk about moving forward fr
trump campaign or in the other direction. just meeting may not be a big deal. the reason they were meeting was because of this dangling, we have a lure of information. that s where you get into, michael, that potentially dangerous territory you are talking about in adversarial country that s saying we have something that might be incriminating, which would potentially disrupt the election process. is that the portion that might make this matter illegal? i think this is the hook into something larger. i believe, and i don t want to sound conspiratorial. i think there are a lot of intelligence officials that believe that the purpose of this meeting was to answer the querrey of, are these guys interested in compromising information? yes.