with the director. >> let me ask you this. even in his testimony on the hill, he referred to -- i think he use the phrase, nauseous. when he was asked if he was concerned when he came out with that reopening of the investigation several days before the election, whether he might affect the election. there was criticism of director comey during the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. i imagine from both sides. but being very public when he first said he was not issuing charges, but being very critical. from some, and some with axes to grind. is it your sense he or others in the fbi thought he was too involved politically in 2016? >> i think what we saw with director comey is something that may be unique in washington, that is someone who had no regard for the political ramifications what was he was about to do, but as we want our leaders to, do he worked his end box, what's this front of me, what are the hard decisions that i have to make? he didn't say, this may be a political hot potato, i'm going to kick this across the street, let someone else do it. he worked the cases that were in