it's a very -- it's a gray area in the district of columbia. it's not an automatic situation. i don't know all the bars he's admitted to. but it's somewhat governed by which bar he belongs to. >> and john dean, this notion of an aide to sessions going to a congressional staffer looking for dirt on comey, how unusual does that sound to you? >> that sounds very unusual. i worked at the department of justice, and that is just way out of bounds of the norms of the department of justice. even as political a one as nixon had with first mitchell and then kleindienst. >> i want to thank everybody. this is, obviously, a political as well as a legal story. let's bring in the political panel, diana grubez, van jones, jack kingston, veronica henderson, paul begala, and jason miller. and go. what do you make of the reporting tonight? >> well, i mean, this is disturbing.