They did and did not talk about. caitlyn joins me live from washington this morning. caitlyn, what was off limits for these two witnesses? reporter: good morning, laura. these are two crucial witnesses. mark short, the chief of staff to mike pence as vice president and greg jacob, the chief d counsel to pence. they would not discuss their direct conversations with president donald trump or other conversations they knew of that were direct conversations with trump. that s because trump s team came to them and instructed them not to talk about what s called presidential communications. those were off limits and more importantly, the vice president s office, their team, decided that they were willing to oblige with this request from the trump team. so the thing is here though, i mean, it s important the parameters that are being set but the thing is they were willing to talk about a lot of things. this was a very small amount of questions in the interviews.
And for the most part, i think we ve seen certainly over the last few years that republicans in most cases on the hill are happy to support their president on things like this. eric: jeff mason, always insightful. thank you for joining us this afternoon on the news that chief d the ni dni dan coats will be replaced by congressman john ratcliffe on august 15th. we ll have a lot more when we come back. stay with us. oblem. so if there s a better treatment than warfarin. i want that too. eliquis. eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk better than warfarin. plus has significantly less major bleeding than warfarin. eliquis is fda-approved and has both. what s next? reeling in a nice one. don t stop taking eliquis unless your doctor tells you to, as stopping increases your risk of having a stroke. eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal bleeding.