foreman, thank you very much. let me bring in cnn's senior political reporter, nia-malika henderson, karen lee, and cnn justice correspondent, pamela brown. so coming off of tom's timeline of sorts, carol, to you first. i'm listening to sarah sanders in that briefing and she was almost forced to admit, because of what the president said to nbc today, forced to admit, she has come out in the last couple of days with not all the information. >> yeah, and not just her, but also white house press secretary sean spicer, who started this, who answered the first questions about the timing o of this and the motivation and how it all went down and we heard from sarah yesterday and then we heard from the president and sarah again today. and this has been a very bumpy messaging operation for them on this. it's obviously, >> isn't it more than bumpy, carol? to quote david chemical i know, it's a crisis of credibility here from the white house. >> if you're going to do something this substantial as fire the director of the fbi, you would think you would have a process in place for explaining how that all happened. and they have increasingly lost cred