question as few minutes with reporters. one of the questions she got was is the president serious? does he really want the justice department to investigate his past political opponent. >> her answer was well i would think he wants the justice department to investigate anything this they believe to be a potential crime. if you just play that back save that -- set that aside that is stunning. what we are seeing what we've been talking about since the show began is this president's anger at his justice department and attorney general for investigating him because they're not sure whether or not his campaign may have committed some crimes during the last election. it's really just sort of a stunning moment and stunning political tin ear tone deafness whatever you want to call it. >> ashley at the risk of being accuse of naval gazing let's talk about our profession. i've said around the newsroom the last couple of months the