and, an intimate look at the work of painter david hockney. first to the analysis of shields and brooks. that's syndicated columnist mark shields, and "new york times" columnist david brooks, who joins us from san francisco. elcome to you both. a lot of talk about the new book by jamesomey. he describes the president as being unethical, untethered to the truth, and describes his presidency as a forest fire.d, daet me start with you. from what you've read of thed reporting e excerpts, what's your takeaway? >> well, i think president trump has done a pretty good job ofng confireverything comey said by his tweets today. slime ball shldn't become head of the white house. what we see is a lot ofpeople who work in government in washington as part of career oyaltyservice that their is not to red and blue and we're used to covering politics as a red and blue tribal war but their loyalty is to their profession, institution and they get in the middle of red-blue fights and have teir own personal opinions, but comey has loyalties to other things.f he'sen