mr. bharara thought he was staying on. with the president's message of draining the swamp and wanting to be tough on crime. in albany, preet bharara has shaken the foundations of our capital. whether you're democrat or republican, he's been an equal opportunist when it comes to weeding out corruption. certainly he was happy to stay on. this disrupt rehearsversal is v concerning. we don't know who's coming in next and it's going to be some very big shoes to fill as the previous caller said in order to get that same type of corruption and crime fighting capabilities that mr. bharara had. it's really a shame because there was as far as i can see no good reason to reverse course here. >> as a former federal prosecutor working in the eastern directors you've coordinated, worked with preet bharara. what sorts of conversations that you've had and for that matter, experiences you had working with him tell you that he would basically stand up and say, no, you have to fire me? >> look, i was only in management for a little time. i re

mr. bharara, that he would stay on.'t believe that's been an official statement from the white house or during the trump administration. >> rob, unique to bring him to the trump tower in a public way that he certainly didn't need to do, right? >> look, the presidential transition and trump tower had a lot of oddities involved in it. yes, i don't want to defend if he was poorly treated and not as if there's been a ton of consistency through the transition in the first 50 days of this administration, but the bottom line is, these u.s. attorneys serve at the will -- the pleasure of the president. he certainly has the right to ask them to move on. frankly, mr. bharara should resigned when asked and may be doing a bit of grand standing today. >> evan, let me ask you about that. surely bharara knows he serves at the pleasure of the president and would have to honor a request to resign. so what is behind this? he had to have known that not resigning was going to create some sort of issue. >> look, this is just another example

mr. bharara was fired? then the big one. was mr. bharara conducting any other investigations of president trump, his family or administration officials at the time he was fired. if so, what was the nature of these investigations? were you aware of them when he was fired? was president trump aware of them when he was fired? were other white house or justice department officials aware of that at the time preet bharara was fired? in other words, we know what you have said about this matter. we'd now like to have actual information. the senators are looking for a response from the attorney general by monday. we'll see. the department of justice is a little busy right now. "washington post" breaking a bombshell exclusive story today that the trump administration, including the justice department, tried to block the testimony of former acting attorney general sally yates in the trump russia investigation. sally yates and two other former administration officials were due to testify at an open hearing today in the house intelligence committ

mr. bharara, why he was asked to resign. evidently, he decided not to accept the resignation avenue, and then later, according to twitter, apparently said that he had actually been fired. that's pretty unusual. and i imagine in the next few days or week, we'll probably find out a little bit more about what really happened and, more importantly, why it happened. >> and do you think, though, that -- i mean, as some would characterize this as an epic cleansing of certain positions, obama holdovers. and you make a great point about the fact that bharara did meet with president trump in november and was informed that he would stay on. some are concerned that maybe this is to do with high-level investigations, some of which may have to do with emoluments clause breeches for this current president. >> well, i can tell you this, thomas, having been attorney general of florida, the third largest state in the country, we had a lot of investigations ongoing while i was there. obviously, i departed of my own volition and ran for governo

mr. bharara? mr. bharara? exactly what -- >> the best we've ever seen. >> preet! [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: final hugs. we see him walk into the office. back to you in the studio. >> all right. thank you very much. apparently he is taking back exit to avoid the cameras there. certainly he is one, leslie mentioned ris reputation as the sheriff of wall street. also known as bipartisan u.s. attorney. party lines haven't affected his targets. he's gone after bill de blasio. >> he's gone after wall street kingpins. people are anti-erdogan in turkey. this is a guy to me is really a patriot. and this is a guy who loved the job that he was doing and it was very clear, he doggedly pursued people without breaking the law. >> maybe he turns out to be a governor. he is a very popular guy. i think both sides to your point of the aisle like him and i think he ultimately runs for higher office. >> a broader picture. certainly the firing of 46 u.s. attorney who's are appoint bid your predecessor is not an unusual thing. at the same time, a lot of posts are open, a lot o

mr. bharara's career, why should they care? >> the independence of the justice department is one of the cornerstones of our democracy. preet has always been a standout when it comes to understanding that independence is really the coin of the realm here. he has a track record, long time, of prosecuting public corruption, terrorism, drug cases without any fear of favoritism. so the idea that one of the u.s. attorneys, who has a track record of almost eight years of unbending independence would be targeted for firing is really difficult to understand. what makes preet different from the other u.s. attorneys is that he met with the presint. the president asked him to stay on. and then suddenly preet's told he's fired. you have to ask yourself, what changed? yn the answer to that question. i'm sure preet doesn't know why he was fired. it's troubling and should be troubling to everyone in our country. >> i appreciate the precision in what you're saying we know and don't know. are you raising the prospect that would be potentially in

mr. bharara said they don't know. >> there have been expressed concerns about on going cases and what kindf interruption this would be that so many attorneys were asked to resign and now in the case of preet bharara being fired, what's your understanding about he may have been involved cases and how his firing perhaps jeopardizes those investigators or not? >> reporter: there are a number of career attorneys across the country in u.s. attorney's offices. he's certainly not alone there, but as you mentioned, he does have an active docket there in the southern district of new york. he handles a lot of public corruption cases. a lot of insider trading cases, and so we'll have to wait to see how all of this shakes out. >> okay. legal analyst paul callan with us also. now we know via tweet from preet bharara's account that he has been fired in. and some cases may have stemmed from the allegation from donald trump that trump tower was wiretapped, the president saying that very definitively via tweet last week. do you see any real parallels into those potential cases of the firing of preet bharar

mr. bharara, given that mr. bharara could be reviewing a range of potential improper activity emanating from trump tower and the trump campaign, as well as entities with financial ties to the president or the trump organization." commerce and conyers wrote -- trump has tapped goldman sachs banker james donovan to be deputy treasury secretary. if confirmed, donovan would work directly for another former goldman sachs banker, not treasury secretary steven mnuchin. trump has also tapped another half dozen more people tied to goldman sachs to join his administration, including national economic council director gary cohn, trump chief strategist stephen bannon, securities and exchange commission chairman nominee jay clayton, senior white house adviser anthony scaramucci, and senior counselor for economic initiatives dina habib powell. white house press secretary sean spicer said tuesday president trump is extremely confident the justice department will find evidence to back up his unsubstantiated claims that president

mr. bharara pretty well.eet about the moreland commission, now i know what the moreland commission must have felt like? >> well, look, i can't speculate as to what was on the plate of the u.s. attorney's office in the southern district of new york. but one of the reasons why u.s. attorneys have been in a position where they made changes in the beginning of the administration but not changes during an administration except for cause is because of the importance of the independence of the u.s. attorney. they're relied upon to pursue cases ranging from corruption to national security investigations of the highest order. under preet's watch in the southern district, i know both as someone who's lived in new york and his family in new york, was grateful for the work of that office, great partner to the national security division, going after cases ranging from the spokesman for al qaeda to the times square bomber and in every instance, the number one concern is what was best for the case, what would keep the peopl

mr. bharara running for government in 2018 in new york? do you have information not there has been an exploratory -- reporter: certainly not in exploratory examinations. but there are stories about preet bharara's ambitions. there is nothing necessarily wrong with that. a lot of people have gone from his position and run for office. rudy giuliani the most famous example. he's the one person holding out to say he was fired. this is a common practice. there is a lot to criticize donald trump for, but for doing what other presidents have done is not an alarming effect. arthel: we are not criticizing. >> some are. arthel: but let's talk about attorneys general under president obama and george w. bush. they tried to stagger departures over a few months. president obama was advised that firing u.s. attorneys en masse could harm couldn't newt and throw law enforcement efforts into disarray. when you consider the timing of president trump's decision, could there be something behind the curtain. reporter: you get the sense donald trump thinks there

mr. bharara a call to see if it was true that he was intending not to resign. bharara told him that was the case and mr. boente called him back and said the president had fired him. we're getting a lot of reaction. from different democrats. on capitol hill. and we're also seeing a statement from the attorney general of new york if we have it up there. he is making this political. and saying that this just shows that the president's abrupt and unexplained zings to summarily remove 40 u.s. attorneys has once again caused chaos in the federal government. and has led to questions about the justice department's vital and nonpartisan work. and whether it will continue under attorney general sessions as it must. again that's from the attorney general in new york, eric schneiderman. ana. >> as you mentioned, we're getting more statements, people are reacting in a dramatic fashion to this particular firing. even though he was among 46 u.s. attorneys who were asked to resign. and the statement we're getting from schumer, the u.s. senator of course, preet bharara has been

mr. bharara to remain. by asking for the resignation before their replacements have been confirmed or nominated the president is interrupting ongoing cases and investigations and hindering the administration of justice. any president can clean house like this. a president can switch the u.s. attorneys out. but why tonight? why so abruptly? and why ask preet bharara to stay and then change your mind. joining us now is charlie savage, he's been reporting on the latest move by the trump administration, he's the author of power wars, inside obama's post 9/11. mr. savage, thank you very much for being here tonight, thank you. so he can appoint as many u.s. attorneys as he likes, is this a standard operating procedure for his administration? is there anything unusual about the fact that there was no announcement or the fact that there was no announcement to replace these attorneys? >> the first point is absolutely a president can remove u.s. attorneys at will, they serve at the pleasure of the president and it is

mr. bharara, it is that he is ambitious.robably more about paving the way for a future elected office, but nonetheless, a miss more unrelled politics. paul: yes, we should call him governor bharara from now on. james. >> this is a hit to warren buffett, berkshire hathaway's ceo, who we learned this week is really the world champion, the greatest of all time in tax avoidance in the history of business. last week he released his tax returns, challenged donald trump to do the same. thanks to a leak this week, we learned that donald trump paid more than 20 times in 2005 what mr. buffett, who's much wealthier with, paid in 2015. so you can think of the greats in other fields, michael jordan, joe montana, tax avoidance, warren buffett's the best there ever was. paul: alicia. california, they've done this on the pretense that there's a teacher shortage, however, thousands of teachers in california are getting warnings that they could be laid off principally because pension obligations are too high. but there is no teacher shortage

mr. bharara to stay on in that job, he was asked to, he was fired on saturday. did the president decide to keep him on or a finite period of time? >> i'll refer you to the department of justice. this is a standard operating procedure to ask for the resignation and a good chunk of them had already submitted resignation letter. this is just the final swathe of individuals who had not at this time but this is common practice of most administrations. >> i understand that this happened at the doj and the request was from the doj but there seems to be a white house connection vis-a-vis the fact that the had the had asked him to stay on and the president apparently called him a couple of days before he was allegedly fired. can you tell us whether that was all, did the president change his mind? >> no, the. the was calling to thank him for his service. this is a standard as i said a standard action that takes place at most administrations, then attorney general reno sent out almost identical letter in 1993, the bush administration had a similar one as well. this is a ve

mr. bharara, is that the president, as far as we understand, asked him to stay on. so what's curious here is what's changed an why did the president offer essentially to extend him and then take it back? other than that, there's not all that much to see here. the sort of abrupt nature of the firings is interesting. this was probably going to happen anyway. it would have happened any other republican president that somebody else won other than donald trump. last year and so tre's not that much to see here, but the bharara firing is interesting, because the president so far an we know had asked him to stay on. >> we heard from bharara in september. he said he had a meeting with the president, he was asked to stay on, to continue his work and he's in the middle of several high-profile investigations. alice, given that the president gave him his word and asked him to stay on. does this speak to, does this diminish the president's word now that he's turned around and fired him? >> i think for him to come out of the gate and assure bharara that he was going to stay and go

mr. bharara making clear that he wanted to continue on in this work and sources told my colleague tom winter that he had even planned to go to work on monday. that's how shocking this was of a cull that he received yesterday. he referred to that basically in a tweet and statement earlier wanting to be very clear that this was not his decision. he did not tender his resignation, instead he was fired. writing in this statement i'm going to read to you a little bit. he said -- today i was fired from my position as u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. one hallmark of justice is absolute independence and that was my touch stone everyday that i served. so, for some context, bharara was of course a pretty high profile u.s. attorney overseeing areas like wall street, like public officials in new york such as the mayor and governor and tackling issues of corruption. so this was somebody who was pretty well known in those circles and there are democrats such as senator chuck schumer from new york putting out a statement today and praising him, saying he will be sorely missed for his in

mr. bharara, but i do know that other administrations have done the same thing, perhaps not in as abruptshion, but that's what elections have consequences and so for people to complain about it, they're ignoring the history of new presidencies and i think the president had every right to ask for their resignations. >> all right, but senate democratic leader chuck schumer who is friends with bharara and once had him on his staff as his chief counsel had a very different reaction. >> he will be sorely missed. preet took on wall street and corruption among public officials better than anyone else. i believe the president's decision to change his mind and fire preet says far more about the president than it does about preet. >> so talk about this with cnn senior political analyst david gergen who is also a former presidential adviser to nixon, ford, clinton and reagan and errol lewis who is an editor with spectrum news. was there a rush to let preet bharara go along with the other u.s. attorneys in part because of bharara's relations with democrat chuck schumer or possibly to impact or poten

mr. bharara, but i know that other administrations have done the same thing, perhaps not in as abrupt a fashion, but that is what elections have consequences. and so for people to complain about it are ignoring the history of new presidencies. and i think the president had every right to ask for their resignations. >> we learned this week that general michael flynn was working as a foreign agent last year while he was advising president trump's campaign. flynn notified the transition team and the white house lawyers about the work he had done for turkey, but this information was not disclosed to the public nor did he file the proper paperwork until this week. does this trouble you at all that the national security adviser has been until recently a paid advocate for a foreign government? >> jake, there's a lot of things about our relations with russia that trouble me a lot. for example, why was the provision in the platform that called for the provision of defensive weapons to yukraine. there were a whole lot of aspects with russia and vladimir putin that requires scrutiny. and so far i don't th

mr. bharara to remain.y asking for the resignation before their replacements have been confirmed or nominated the president is interrupting ongoing cases and investigations and hindering the administration of justice. any president can clean house like this. a president can switch the u.s. attorneys out. but why tonight? why so abruptly? and why ask preet bharara to stay and then change your mind. joining us now is charlie savage, he's been reporting on the latest move by the trump administration, he's the author of power wars, inside obama's post 9/11. mr. savage, thank you very much for being here tonight, thank y you. so he can appoint as many u.s. attorneys as he likes, is this a standard operating procedure for his administration? is there anything unusual about the fact that there was no announcement or the fact that there was no announcement to replace these attorneys? >> the first point is absolutely a president can remove u.s. attorneys at will, they serve at the pleasure of the president and it is

mr. bharara, but i do know that other administrations have done the same thing perhaps not in as an abruptnessections have consequences. for people who complain about it, they're ignoring the history of new presidencies, and i think the president had every right to ask for their resignations. >> let's bring in cnn's sara gannon for more. chuck schumer is also reacting to the news, bharara was his chief council at one time. >> that's right, fred. schumer is the reason bharara got this job eight years ago and now appears they may be the reason he lost the job, too. finding that the president fired him in reaction to the president's agenda. schumer would not address those allegations today. but said that he was surprised by how all of this went down. >> he will be sorely missed. preet took on wall street and corruption among public officials better than anyone else. i believe the president's decision to change his mind and fire preet says far more about the president than it does about preet. >> now, senator schumer says that back in november president trump asked him about keeping preet bharara.

mr. bharara to stay on in that job and he was asked to resign like the other attorney and beats and thenaid he was fired on saturday when he refused to resign for did the president change his mind about keeping him on wasn't only supposed to be for a finite period of time? >> press secretary spicer: i'm going to refer you to the department of justice on that. this is a standard operating procedure for a new administration around this time to ask for the resignation of all the u.s. attorneys. we had most of them, a good chunk of them had already submitted their resignations. this is just the final swath of individuals who had not at this time. this is common practice of most administrations. >> reporter: the request was from the doj, but there seems to be a white house connection vis-a-vis that the president had actually asked him to stay on, and apparently he was called a few days before he was a jet allegedly fired, can you tell us about that? did the president change his mind? >> press secretary spicer: the president was calling to thank him for his service. this is as standard as i sa

mr. preet bharara should have been ready for this situation. >> he was at trump power and he emerged and said -- that sound like season going back on their word. >> the fact that on short notice is a little tough but they isn't have the thourt why is this a normal course of action? zit very important regardless of who the president is, when you're a united states attorney, all politics stop at the door. that rule applies whether there's a republican or democrat at the white house. and so nevertheless, sir, when i was united states attorney for george h.w. bush, he had priorities, protecting the environment, going after bank fraud, going after drug dellers. as a result, as an appointee of president bush, that's are my prourts. >> but can you -- as u.s. attorneys, do you not have the ability to pivot in those ways when priorities change under different administrations? >> absolutely. and you -- the united states attorney as presidentially appointed has an obligation. but nevertheless, if the president articulates certain goals, you should be focusing on those goals. >> michael mckay, thank

mr. bharara went to trump tower, met with the then president-elect and was told he could keep his job andto and last week the president requested the resignations of all of the remaining obama appointees to federal prosecutor jobs and mr. spicer basically said that the white house was acting in the traditional way in asking for the resignation. >> which is very true. it happens every single time. >> that's true. >> this time around there was a little asterisk. were we surprised? donald trump is going to keep this guy which is not typical. he must like he's going after mayor de blasio the mayor of new york who is very controversial because of his corruption. he's very aggressive. >> they were investigating albany. >> very aggressive on insider trading which he had been against the big banks so to speak. maybe that's why he was going to stay on. apparently not. >> something changed. >> he also got a call and the president called him but he couldn't call him back. >> that's a protocol. >> a conflict of interest. >> a protocol issue that attorney generals are not supposed to take calls from t

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mr. bharara, but i do know that other administrations have done the same thing, perhaps not in as abrupt what elections have consequences. so for people to complain about it, they're ignoring the history of new presidencies and i think the president had every right to ask for their resignations. >> senator john mccain, one of the lone republicans outspoken about trump weighs in on the firing of u.s. attorney preet bharara of new york's famed southern district, known as one of the nation's toughest prosecutors and the sheriff of wall street. bharara refused to step down after the president ordered 46 of the remaining u.s. attorneys appointed under president obama to step down on friday. but the context here is important. back in november, bharara walked into trump tower in manhattan to meet with then president-elect trump and his future boss, attorney general jefferson sessions. bharara walked out confident, telling reporters that he had been asked to stay on. four months later, he was fired. bharara was also leading several investigations, including cases against russian money laundering

attorney preet bharara who spearheaded mr. d'souza's prosecution.ker and convicted felon dinesh d'souza. must be a great day for you. i can't imagine the feeling if somebody put me in jail for 8 months and now all of a sudden they are ousted. you can now tell us something that you were never age t able o say before about your case. >> congressional oversight committee has been trying to get a copy of my case file now for well over year and bharara's office 'line blocking this saying it was ongoing case. of course my case efnedded in 2014. finally now congress has the case file and it's very interesting because it kind of is a revealing window into bharara's way of doing business. first thing highlighted in my case file is that i'm a conservative. a prominent critic of the obama administration. this should be completely irrelevant in the decision about whether to prosecute me should be beside the point. but, of course, in bharara's case it was the point. so there is evidence in this case file and there is a lot more that this was a political prosecut

not clear if bharara was investigating mr. powerful attorneys in the country. some think he was the inspiration for the show "billions." most presidents do this. clean house with the attorneys. he is not doing anything completely unheard of. we will ask laura jarrett about this in the 5:00 hour. >>> both sides in the obamacare repeal battle waiting analysis by the congressional budget office. that report expected today and will hold a trove of estimates. including the overall cost of the bill and how many could lose insurance if this goes into place. republicans have been busy minimizing the importance. cbo score. among them house speaker paul ryan. >> one thing i'm certain will happen is cbo will say not as many get coverage. this is not a government mandate. this is not the government makes you buy what we say you should buy. the government should think you should buy it. there is no way you can compete with on paper a government mandate with coverage. >> there is growing frustration with speaker ryan. among many in congress

preet bharara had to be fired to matter more complex was to be viewed at trump tower in late november after the election when mrp asked them to stay out under his administration. preet bharara has been successful in other parts of the southern district of new york. taken on corruption cases against politicians who said they were attachable. democrats alleging mortgages removal of their just entered politics. three watchdog groups asked subtwo to investigate possible conflicts of interest in this new role as president. this word a comic and leisure companies, ranking member of the house oversight committee tried to insinuate a connection between that and the trump team later that week asking for resignation. >> i'm curious as to why that is and certainly a lot of questions coming up as to whether mr. trump is concert about the jurisdiction of the u.s. attorney and whether that might affect his future. >> the jurisdiction also a trump tower is located. massachusetts senator elizabeth warren treated out bill donald trump talk about a corruption of of government that wants a bunch of prosecutors who want to investi

familiar with bharara who is also familiar with the justice department's inner workings, someone who has led this department. roberto gonzalez is joining me by phone. we really appreciate your time, mr. gonzalez. i know you were appointed by and served under president george w. bush. and while working for then senator charles schumer when you were in the justice department. bharara also was in the probe in eight u.s. attorneys, part of a controversy that is said to have ultimately played a key role in the resignation of the then attorney general roberto gonzalez, yourself. given that history, what's your response to these developments today? >> well, [ inaudible ]. obviously those were all investigated. i was cleared of any wrongdoing, because in reality, you know, the president of the united states has the power with respect to hiring and firing of the u.s. attorneys. they serve at his pleasure. if donald trump no longer has any pleasure of continued service, then meet it out. it really is arrogant for an employee to leave, when told by the president that their services are no longer required. everyone understands that you serve at the pleasure of the president, no matter how wonde

mr spoke. >> i want to wait until there is a better program for the repeal to happen. >> reporter: late saturday afternoon, trump won the showdown with the federal prosecutor. he originally asked preet bharara to stay on as u.s. attorney for manhattan. friday justice department told him and 45 other u.s. attorneys to resign and leave office. bharara refused. he tweet saturday that he had been fired. it is customary for presidents to pick their own u.s. attorneys but they said the bankruptness of the decision without new appointees ready to go and after asking bharara to stay on caught many by surprise. >> reporter: you can imagine the frustration. ta at&t customers didn't have coverage again. they apologized but weren't to offer information about how long it lasted. this is the second time had being there's been go a major service disruption. they said they had a nationwide it's serve outage wednesday night. some people were not able to call 911. >>> next on news4 at 6:00, a fire truck involving a crash early this morning. how the wreck happened and the warning. >>> one person is dead in the indian head area of chars county. a truck traveling went off the roadway and struck a tree. the cras

bharara's office. right now he's in the hospital with serio injuries. joining us with bill browd, the author of "red notice." mrbrowder, i know you have stayed up to a terrible hour of the night to be with us from britain, thanks for joining us. >> good to be here. >> let me just ask you the basics of if you know how mr. gorakov, how he is. a fourth floor window is not a good place to start. it's remarkable to me that he survived this fall. >> it's truly remarkable. so when we got the news that he fell down four stories, he's a 53-year-old man, i assumed the absolute worst two nights ago. and the next day, sort of about 24 hours later, i got the news that he is in serious condition, but no longer critical condition. nikolai has survived the fall. he's got all of his mental facilities. he's not paralyzed. he's got a few broken bones. it looks like this man went down four stories and survived, which is just a miracle. >> do you have any greater understanding about the circumstances under which this happened? obviously there have been conflicting claims. russian state supported media are saying this is all an acci

mr. trump -- president trump is concerned about the jurisdiction of this u.s. attorney and whether that might affect his future. amy: bharara's dismissal came as his office was probing fox news after it allegedly failed to informrm shareholders s about numerous settlements in sexual harassment and assault cases. the dismissal came less than a week after government watchdog groups sent a letter to the manhattan prosecutor's office asking for an investigation into whether president trump violated a clause of the constitution , the emoluments clause barring , federal employees receiving benefits from foreign governments. in 2013, preet bharara was one of 18 u.s. officials barred from enentering russia. russian president vladimir putin was reportedly angered by bharara's prosecution of russian arms dealer viktor boot. on sunday, bharara tweeted about his firing -- "by the way, now i know what the moreland commission must have felt like." that's a reference to an anti-corruption commission set up by new york governor andrew cuomo in 2013 and then disbanded the next year. the tweet fueled speculation bharara was fired because of hi

mr. mcgahn told me that the transition would be done in an orderly fashion to preserve country not, clearly this is not the case. this is set for several high-profile attorneys including preet bharara from the southern district of new york. bharara has successfully convicted several on charges. now, bharara's removal will be surprising because back in november, he met with then president-elect donald trump and told reporters that trump had asked him to stay on. a spokesperson from the u.s. justice department waved off concerns that removal of these u.s. attorneys will cause a problem saying quote, until the new attorneys are confirmed the dedicated career officers in our offices will continue the work. >> let's talk with tom lobianco and eugene stat. it's not that this is unusual, bill clinton let go almost what president trump has done so far. but it's the execution and immediacy of this. do you get the feeling that this is a misstep? >> well, it's hard to tell whether this is another misstep by the administration but it does go to show when you're unprepared for these things, as everyone has pointed here. look, this is what happens. but how it happened is the issue. that's where