so for holly barry specifically or colby bryant specifically. so parliament began to wonder is it this -- people -- one neuron that is available for my ability to recognize jennifer aniston? that has lots of problems because the minute you say the one neuron that is responsible if that goes away you would not be able to recognize jennifer aniston. a lot more researchers or many other researchers have come to believe it is more of a network, a series of beacons. as you are coming to understand an individual or information is coming into the neural scene, they are responding to specific shades of brown or blue and as each neuron creates this beacon of understanding and comprehension eventually along that neural chain if each one of those beacons lights up and it is jennifer aniston that final beacon lights up. it is more of an indicator all of these previous steps in this neural chain have been reached. when you get into more sophisticateded bci, particularly in terms of motion, researchers are starting to think about how the brain is thinking abo

. >> then we have general barry mccaffrey speaking earlier today with mike holly and stephanie rhulen msnbc. and 50 national security officials from the gop ranging from advisers to former cabinet members and generals are echoing those types of calls against donald trump, like mccaffrey. adding to the voices, senator susan collins, congressman scott riggle. here with me, josh barrel. and in washington, politico's chief investigative reporter, ken vogel. good to have you with me. ken, let me start with you. trump responded to the national security officials during an interview on "fox business" this morning. i want to play that for everybody. take a look. >> i wasn't using any of them and they would have loved to have been involved in the campaign but i wasn't interested in that. look where the country is now on national policy. look where we are on defense. look at the mess we're in. >> talking about the mess we're in. we've got senator collins, congressman riggle coming out. collins being added to the list of senators, graham, sas, cruz, heller. what's the breaking point for republi