>> and it's not a roving mandate to be a fact gatherer for the benefit of anybody, including congress. >> neal, i want you to respond. >> i mean, the ridiculousness of this, someone like robert mueller needs to be reminded that nobody voted for him. i mean, that's inane. obviously he knows that. this is one of our most distinguished public servants around. and by the way, it wasn't just mueller showing up one day and saying, hey, i would like to investigate the president. the president's own guy, rodstein, who was appointed by donald trump, named mueller to that position. so the idea that this is like some sort of creation out of thin air, i think, is ridiculous. and that proof is in the pudding. you've had now 37 different indictments, including the president's national security adviser going to jail and other people like that. so this is like -- this is a very serious thing. this is not mueller just going off on his own. >> i think i would add one other thing.