she wod be the person who would step in if rod s rosenen were somehow fired which we spent a lot o timwondering about. so another big blow to creating a coherent team that can move forward on all these big priorities. >> don mcgan, what's his status with the talk about the time line? >> based on my conversation with sources outside and inside, the president is very frustrated about it. he was toldbout this a year + ago. why wasn't more done? why was robll portered to serve in the white house without full security scleerns th close to the -- clearance that close to the president? i'm told that the president was frustrated that he wasn't alerted about this earlier. will doug mcgan go? he has moussed about a nber of top officials leaving his administration. there's no indication that that's eminent. but certainly the president feelle he misha this. >> do we expect a hearing? >> the republicans wanty to s as far away from the white house as they can. ough democrats would like to make a public show of asking for hearings particularly aut the process of getting security clearances and the role of the

rod rosenen stein saying the same thing on friday.'s appointees and in all of these agencies saying the same thing, that russia tried to interfere in the election. it ended up not being a 400-pound fat dude in a basement in new jersey. >> apparently that is an option. hours after mcmaster's remarks, president trump took to twitter to rebuke his own security adviser's comments. quote, general mcmaster forgot to say that the results of the 2016 election were not impacted or changed by the russians and that the only collusion was between russia and crooked h, the dnc and the dems. remember the dirty dossier, uranium, speeches, e-mails and the podesta company. wow. >> it really is unbelievable that he is still tuchurning up conspiracy theories. >> you could see the pressure as the tweets continued over the weekend. you could see the squeeze churning inside the president's head. >> david, i actually tweeted this weekend at some point as they kept going. somebody, anybody, call the lawyers and get the phone taken away from him. >> no, you k