writing about the issue arising from his or her duties, while still acting in the special agent capacity. so if he wants to write the book, veal to quit. >> he'll have to quit. but the problem with this is that the atf is being inconsistent. i asked them for that statement. they came back with that. but there was nothing in the denial letter that stated anything about compensation or profiting. the letter specifically stated they didn't want him to publish this book, which is already written, by the way. they've seen the manuscript. they know what he's going to say. they don't want it published because it will hurt morale. it has nothing it do with compensation and atf didn't ask him if he was being compensated, not to mention i reached out to the brian terry family to see how they feel about this. they want it published and they've also said if atf has nothing to hide, why not let john doddson publish the book? >> brian: thanks so much. thanks for doing the research and we'll see if the book comes out while he's still active. coming up on this show with two hours remaining, a bartend