think to the ex-temtechbnt that was that fight within the white house, what clearly happened is the wing that said, you know, go with your gut, mr. president, go with your instincts, do what you want to do, those are the people that want out here and the people that might have counseled him, you know, look, this is going to blow up as michael said, this is only going to embolden your adversaries to the extent that you feel like there's an adversarial thing on this russia investigation. the people that were urging caution to the extent that they were doing it, they lost in this one. >> all right. ambassador michael mcfaul, michael shaeear, thank for bein with us. much, much more on an extraordinary 24 hours in washington. up next, we'll take you to capitol hill where vice president pence insisted the firing of comey's firing had nothing, nothing, nothing to do with the russia investigation. even some republicans are skeptical about that. plus the popup pundit i mentioned, even vladimir putin is offering his political analysis of the comey bombshell. we'll play that for you a little later. it's a treat.