. >> julie howard, i'm an independent consultant. thank you so much. thank you for all you have done over the past four years and especially what you have done. i have a question and then a more serious question. the first one is sort of getting beyond the ideological. do you think that we made a mistake by axing out your marks? because your marks and the horse trading that goes on, i think if we look back provided a trading currency that was more important than we realize. >> homages answer that, yes. so i think that your marks need to be transparent. we are not linking and mounting. the large wealth museum became a big issue. it really costs nothing, but it was an issue. i think it your marks need to be transparent. but it's almost impossible for legislative process to work without people feeling that they have some investment in the system. during my years in congress and i was able to get a few things in the bill, they are usually not giant things, i voted for the bill. i mean, i was supported and that is just the way that all institutions work and

. >>> i'll send it over to howard bernstein with an july date on our weather-- >> update on our weather. >> we had clouds this morning. we're going to look potentially at a few showers this afternoon. we haven't pulled the trigger on the yellow alert. it's boarder line. yesterday's deluge gave us a few inches of rain in spots. isolated showers now. things are starting to show up on the radar. most of this isn't reaching the ground. these are very light showers. seeing an enhancement west of warrenton toward skyline drive. got some other sprinkles in the win chester area, back toward strasburg, southeast of woodstock. this stuff is trying to lift toward the north. we'll watch it here in northern virginia. just a little bit of this, a little bit of that right now. the concern is as we go throughout the afternoon, an upper level storm gets closer to us, it's going to be producing more showers. so spotty to scattered showers, especially northern virginia and areas north ever washington, but here we are at 6:00 p.m. if you're going to be up in frederick and leesburg, even fairfax county, the

host of fox news media buzz howard kurtz says you can thank or blame the media for that. julie pierson might still be running the secret service if not for media. details the white house didn't know. a fence jumper with a knife made it all the way to the east room after he overpowered an agent. the post also disclosed the botching of a probe when seven bullets struck the white house back in 2011 and "the washington examiner" revealed the service had allowed an armed felon to share an elevator ride with president obama two weeks ago. pierson's weak and defensive performance during a house hearing produced a media drum beat for her ouster. >> i didn't hear a complete endorsement of julia pierson. >> it's just a matter of time now before that person will be replaced. >> director pierson should resign today. >> the white house briefly struggled yesterday to defend her. >> so are you telling me this morning that the president of the united states and the first lady have confidence in julie pierson to run an agency that is supposed to protect two daughters. >> yes, joe, they have con