andrew shapiro, former assistant secretary of state, that's your title. you know d.c. well.does all this mean then when we look at comey and the fact that he n longer sits in that seat calle fbi director and the reporting saying that it's been somewhat tumultuous in terms of identifying his replacement in d.c. when you are missing the fbi director, what does that mean for the intelligence community? >> well, they have an acting director. and the current acting director andrew mccabe is a well-respected fbi official. but at the end of the day i think that the trump administration knows that this is going to be a highly scrutinized choice. so they are looking to try and make that choice properly, but it's also as we've seen again and again the trump personnel process has been disorganized. so it's not surprising that this personnel process is going through the same bumps that we have seen before. >> yeah, we were hearing reporting it was going to be decided earlier. clearly that has not happened. andrew shapiro, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> all right, demonstrators, we

troops as a part of this campaign. >> all right, andrew shapiro, thank you for being with me. >> thank are no charges so far in the investigation between possible ties between russia and the trump campaign. but that certainly hasn't stopped a growth of comparrsons between the current white house woes and the watergate scandal, especially as the president ramps up his rhetoric against james comey. >> in the meantime, no collusion, no obstruction. he's a leaker. james comey confirmed a lot of what i said. and some of the things that he said just weren't true. >> joining us now is rick perlstein, an author of numerous books about american politic. including them, "nixon land, the rise of a president and the fracturing of america." rick, thank you. i appreciate your being with me. i want to delve right into this. this is how the new republic quoted a recent facebook post of yours. you wrote your followers this. "trump is trump, people. trump. stop messaging me about other presidents. okay. we can't help but notice you're all caps right there. >> that's rare. >> kind of shouting at these pe