the other questions that has been raised the dossier of information about the president, a lot unconfirmeda lot of it very unconfirmed if that's a cot gore rethat it was funded in part by dnc. >> we know that the clinton campaign and dnc did pay for access to the dossier, how much of the dossier's creation. we have less of clear picture you have in part because of this deal that was cut on behalf of fusion gps with the house intel committee. authors of the dossier in this instance. i think that that dossier is concerning in part because the fbi was willing to engage with the creator of it and potentially was on path toward paying for it. that also potentially was dossier was used as justification to look into other people in donald trump's circle. we need clarification on this going forward. but as ruth indicated in so many different ways, this is one of those areas where everything really remains very muddy. >> dickerson: let's move from muddy to slightly opaque. julie, this week you had two republicans speak out very strongly about the president but two senators on their way out to retire