narrative public facing tonight congress? based on what we saw in judiciary, he may be willing to do so. he s a capable person but will he turn this into a political spot we have not seen before? i say the likelihood is pretty good. i go back to frank, jolly tried to put a decent face on it saying this resume makes him moderately qualified for this job. i looked around the last 2 1/2 years and we thought some of the guardrails we had. we talked about those before. mattis, coats was one of the last remaining guardrails. the notion ratcliffe will step in and be the kind of guardrail that dan coats was strikes me as implausible, not on the bice sis basis of his resume but the performance he turned in last week sitting in front of robert mueller. i m encouraged by david s personal insights and observations of ratcliffe.