and tried to manage his media profile and that of the fbi's in a way that was deservedly criticized. but we know this back and forth. but i think the timing of it now at this crescendo moment in the mueller investigation, with the president, you know, making threats about firing the standpoint attorney general i think speaks to one of the most troubling aspects of this presidency. that is that president trump does not seem to respect the rule of law or the institutions of law enforcement in our government or our intelligence agencies. is and that is a huge problem. what comey puts out there again is the fact that when the facts of the russia meddling became known, without suggesting that it impacted the result of the election, the president didn't seem to care about what the threat was, what the future of the threat was. we have to keep coming back to that. even the president's defenders have to give room to say why doesn't he seem to care about a major threat to this