Dan Coats' dilemma as national intelligence director

Shortly after Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine in 2014, Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., called on the Obama administration to level retaliatory sanctions on Moscow, actions that “would require our foreign partners to make a choice between America and Putin.”

Three years later, Coats has to make his own choice. The reported pick to be national intelligence director, the Hoosier (if confirmed) may find himself having to choose sides between the intelligence community and the Trump administration. The outcome will provide a good microcosm of the GOP’s budding bromance with Russian President Vladimir Putin.