martha stewart involving the stock issue that eventually caused her to serve some time behind bars. he was a u.s. attorney in rich monday, virginia. a prosecutor, rather, and helped to get guns off the street and then became the number two official, the deputy attorney general under john ashcroft at the justice department. that's when that dramatic episode happened that you were talking about, march 2004. we never knew it at the time. comey ended up testifying about it saying he rushed to the bed side of john ashcroft who was in the hospital with pancreas trouble as officials were asking ashcroft to sign off on the government's warrant list surveillance program. something ashcroft had done several times before. but there had been new objections raised by comey. and at this dramatic scene at the hospital bed side, comey said the attorney general said, don't ask me. i'm not going to sign off on it. comey is now the acting attorney general. and comey said that he and the fbi director robert mueller