talking about it. martha: i think you re right about that. director of national intelligence in the trump administration, john ratcliffe. good to have you with us. with that, we bring in the number 2 senate republican whip, john thune. welcome. good to have you with us today, senator. thanks, martha. martha: seems fair enough i m thinking about the reaction that is likely in the halls of russia and putin s administration or president xi as they chat about this with their own secretaries of defense and whether or not they find this to be interesting and dumb, really, that the secretary of defense was not in contact with the white house for all of these days. right. it reinforces a narrative out there among our adversaries, among our friends, too, that the united states is not pays attention to what s going on on
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potential vice presidential pick, but right now nikki haley appears to be gaining momentum in states like new hampshire and is coalescing a lot more support and getting more money from donors, but it doesn t look like it s going to be enough. so congressman, something just happened which is notable which is that the house republican whip tom emmer has now endorsed donald trump for president which means the speaker, the majority leader, the whip and elise stefanik who is conference chair, all of the house leadership is behind donald trump. tom emmer voted to certify the election so here you have a guy unlike scalise and johnson and others who felt that joe biden won the election, but is still endorsing donald trump. what do you see in all this? well, you ve got to remember, too, and tom emmer is a really good friend. he was one of those who was running for speaker. he was the fourth or fifth ballot back in october after mccarthy took the hit that he did, and at the time trump