Dan Coats: “To your point, Senator Coats, you are right. Budgets are not growing. They are shrinking.”

Electoral legitimacy is the essential linchpin of our entire political culture.

I can confirm that one of my staffers who was aware of the controversy requested that I modify that assessment, but I said no. No, we need to stick to what the analysts have said.

Woodward writes that Dan Coats continued to harbor the secret belief, one that had grown rather than lessened, although unsupported by intelligence proof that Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, had something on Trump.

As long as I feel I can seek the truth and speak the truth, that he will stay in this job.