jim comey was in a tough spot. he was put there by loretta lynch when she left the attorney general at the time with president clinton on that tarmac on the private plane in arizona. when that happened, his avenues about what choices he had about coming forward our own or not, as he explained in the recent hearing on capitol hill, were kind of limited. some of the fbi say he was boxed into a corner. others say he went too far. he was over his skis in a way he dealt with it. it's outside the way the fbi deals with that. if you look at all of the letters that were put out by the trump administration tonight, they make the clay case that is tough to read all that and go back to trump praising comey about how he handled the email investigation. and that he was a welcomed member of the investigation. it's worth pointing out that at