pushing for two choices leading towards this one was o'brien and the other was the u.s. ambassador to germany rick granel. with o'brien, he has this existing working relationship with secretary of state mike pompeo and that is what the president is referring to in his tweet just moments ago. secretary pompeo had significant input and declined the idea of taking on the additional responsibility of national security advisor himself. >> bill: we are learning more about the fisa fight. there are developments later today. what can we expect? >> this morning we have two major hearings that track on the national security or fisa court. the first begins this hour with multiple law enforcement witnesses. we expect there will be questions about whether this should be reform of the national security or fisa court in light of the 2016 election and the second hearing starts an hour later with government watchdogs including michael horowitz who investigates the f.b.i. and justice department