since the first indictments came out. i was in wisconsin, and i was doing focus groups for lord ashcroft polls. we went around talking to wisconsin it voters, and overall they thought that the indictments against paul manafort and rick gates were just a witch-hunt. we went to nevada and heard the same thing from a distinct silo of trump supporters, trump-base voters who are getting news from outlets who are not reporting on anything but the possibility that this is an absolute witch-hunt and out to get donald trump. >> sam? >> well, i'm struck by one person's silence in all of this and that's jeff sessions. i mean jeff sessions runs the department of justice under which the fbi is located and he should be speaking out. these are his employees and they're under attack, and yet this man apparently has gone on an extended christmas break unlike the rest of us. i find that, you know, terrible in a way because you do have your departments and their