because he expanded his investigatn into various abuses of power which in the end included the obstruction of justice for ich nin was driven out of office. and so for donald trump to find out -- if he's finding out tonight that this investigation is going to go beyond, you know, the original focus of it, that's not great news for him. >> it's so interesting you say that because you're referring to in it is watergate timeline, which many observe took so much longer, it appears that both publicly, as you just said within government, the understanding of how wide this scope was came later. so, do you infer anything as a matter of best practices or abundance of caution, all the legal mumbo jumbo that comes out there, that mueller is drawing some lessons from that history? >> i think that's right. this has really sped up because as you said, the watergate process took a lot longer. but but we have at least shadows on the wall of investigations of