private conversations at the highest level of government involving the president of the united states. in every administration i ve ever covered up until now, there haven t been this many total leaks as we ve seen in the five months of this administration. the other issue is, you ve got a number of officials, now including the attorney general of the united states, all of whom are in a position to, if they quick or threaten to quick, put the president in a lot of political danger. his attorney general, if he quit right now, would cause a huge firestorm. yet here you have someone close to the attorney general, multiple sources saying he did just that, threatened to quit or offered to resign. that puts the president in a very tough position. the president would like to be able to change personnel if it s his desire. in this case he really can t. well, he can t, and not only, mike barnie, did threaten to quit, he said give me space, let me do my job or i ll leave.