general in new jersey. did you question whether your investigator's personal political beliefs would color their investigative abilities or their judgment because that's what -- >> that's what he's saying, right. i agree. i think that is the allegation here. i've been a local prosecutor in new york. i was a federal prosecutor at the department of justice. i was a state attorney general, and i ran a police department in camden, new jersey, and i can tell you that i never knew the political affiliation of a single officer or agent that i worked with. you know, it wasn't an issue, and i'm sure i worked with democrats and republicans, but we didn't talk politics. so i do think this is part of a larger strategy really to discredit the investigation, and it happens to be that the fbi and rockbert mueller and his te are the ones standing in the way, so they're the ones being attacked as institutions and as people. >> asha, as a former fbi person, do you bristle at the idea that fbi agents can't separate their personal political beliefs from doing their job? >> absolutely. i echo what anne said. i didn't know who voted for whom, and this was after a controversial election in 2000.