perfectly legitimate. the best interview is the one with lester holt. he mentions the russia investigation. he ends the interview by saying i fully expect that somebody else will take his place and i may be even looking at a longer investigation. so how -- that can't be obstruction. he knows that somebody is going to replace comey and somebody did a few days later. >> you've been saying that all of this needs to be over by the end of the month, by september 1st. take a listen to what you said on fox news this week. >> sure. >> if it isn't over by september, then we have a very, very serious violation of the justice department rules, you shouldn't be conducting one of these investigations in the 60 day period. >> as you know, that's not actually accurate. there is a doj custom not to make public disclosures about investigations within 60 days of election but no doj rule that every investigation needs to be shut down within 60 days of an