Good evening. If you feel like you've been trying to drink from a fire hose when it comes to the news lately, you're not alone.

Even professionals like New York Times' Chief White House correspondent Peter Baker are feeling it.

Quoting now from his tweet this afternoon, just a day in the Trump White House. Reagan-treat-determinated spy chief nominee Pold, North Korea, given pass for illegal missile launches, rapper Frieden Sweden, Trump signed deficit-raising spending bill, top state official fired, and it's not even 3pm yet.

We begin tonight, keep it a monies with one of those items. Another presidential nominee for a very important job being Pold from consideration.

This time it was Texas Congressman John Ratcliffe, nominee for director of national intelligence, and as you might expect, the Axe fell on Twitter, which is, I guess, fitting because that's also where President Trump named him as his pick.

Quoting the president now, our great Republican Congressman John Ratcliffe is being treated very unfairly by the lame-stream media.

Rather than going through months of slander, libel, I explained to John how miserable it would be for him and his family to deal with these people.

John has therefore decided to stay in Congress, where he's done such an outstanding job, representing the people of Texas and our country.

I will be announcing my nomination for DNI shortly.

So, just to be clear, the president wants you to believe that his nominee is fantastic, great, perfect candidate, perfect for the job, totally qualified.

It's just those awful mean reporters are going to be tough on him and they're going to slander and libel him.

And he repeated that argument on his way to his country club in New Jersey.

I felt that Congressman Ratcliffe was being treated very unfairly. I was reading the press, and I think I am a student of the press.

And I could see that the press was treating him. I thought very unfairly, he's an outstanding man.

And I asked him, I said, do you want to go through this for two or three months or would you want me to maybe do something else?

And he thought about it. I said it's going to be rough. I could see exactly where the press is going.

And fake news. He's a fine man. He's a fine man.

And so we hadn't started the process and I thought it's easier before we start.

But I read things that were just unfair. And he's just too good. He doesn't deserve it.

He's just making it up as he goes along. And when he pauses, then he's like, he just throws in the fake news because he needed a second to think about what else to say.

It's the old blame the media game. This is like the oldest, lamest game in the book. The guy's just too good.

He's so good, he can't stand up to reporters, you know, looking into his actual background and actual claims he's made, which, okay, seem to be false.

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