as a lot of people are speculating, you do the investigation, you can continue to investigate and there's a body called congress that also has the -- you know, an interest in this and future prosecutions once he leaves office. so it was not all for naught. >> yeah. i think to laura's point, one of the things that's fascinating and helped to prep jim comey for some of these dramatic hearings before, this is not jim comey. you know? this is -- you know, you watch the way that comey has told these dramatic stories before about the president and you're not getting that with robert mueller. mueller is yes, no. >> yeah. >> refer to the report. >> i'm a little surprised at times he hasn't pushed back more when he was told that he was perpetuating injustice. he said i'll take your question, i think he went to say i take your point. but then later he did tell one of the congressman that he didn't agree with the assessment. so there's a little bit -- >> but he's not fiercely defending his own integrity or the integrity of his team.