extending to general flynn, hesitate to the say this, the stupidity to believe that in this environment as the incoming president that you're going to v a backchannel, that's not secret. whoever made this decision had to know it's going to go south. it's remarkable arrogance. >> on top of all of this, the president has major decisions. he's got to make and presumably fairly soon, has to decide on a new fbi director. several people have taken their names out of consideration. >> so right before donald trump left for his trip we heard no decision was made, he had soured on joe lieberman and while he was gone joe lieberman, the former connecticut senator said not interested. look, i would assume for most people who spent any time in that world, being the fbi director would be a real career capper that most people would want. i do think he struggles -- this is true of other lower level positions in the white house staffing. i think he struggles when you think do i really want to go into that? now, it's no guarantee it's