talk about yet, that made me worry that the department leadership could not credibly complete the investigation and decline prosecution without grieveous damage to the american people's confidence in the justice system. the capper was -- i'm not picking on the attorney general loretta lynch who i like very much, but her meeting with president clinton on that airplane was the capper for me. i said, you know what, the department cannot by itself credibly end this. it was a hard call for me to make to call the attorney general that morning and say i'm about to do a press conference and i'm not going to tell you what i'm going to say. >> but then director comey said things changed. >> and having done that then having testified repeatedly under oath, we're done, this was done in the credible way. there's no there there. that when the anthony weiner thing landed on me on october 27th and there was a huge -- this is what people forget -- new step to be taken, we may be finding the golden missing e-mails that would change this case. if i were not to speak about