interest of the american people combatting this threat from iran, which we have lots of intelligence on. missiles on ships, aiming toward american assets in the middle east. john brennan who was discredited in terms of making false claims about what the president has done. how is it helpful to americans for democrats to have him come to capitol hill as someone who they should trust? >> i don't know that necessarily having him there. i trust him 100%. he was one of the players. he was one of the figures. he was in the room when the deal was put there. look, it is commonsense in my opinion when the united states pulled out of this deal, that iran was going to react this way. it was going to increase its enrichment of uranium. if you read "the wall street journal" article last week, it really depends on who saw what first. iran said, look, you're beefing up your military, we need to defend ourselves. we are saying the same thing. pompeo and bolton, even the president eluded to, are iran talks. democrats don't have the same