and reaction has been coming in ever since from capitol hill and beyond. joining us, david axelrod and john king. >> david, your argument, which you posted on twitter earlier is that if president obama's chief of staff had called the fbi to knock down a story on an ongoing probe of the president's allies, congress would have raised hell. is it that simple? now they say it was the deputy director who asked to talk to reince priebus about this and that's how it got started. >> this wasn't a casual conversation. this was a conversation about an ongoing investigation, coverage of an ongoing investigation. how often does the fbi say we don't comment on ongoing investigations? and it appears that, i dons know wh what the genesis of the conversation was but it appears that the chief of staff was trying to enlist the fbi knocking down a story about an ongoing investigation involving the president and his allies during the campaign, and that seems to me to be a very