bizarre escapade with the white house. so i'm not sure there is something terribly new about that in and of itself. what is i think dramatic about today's events is that the chairman of the house intelligence committee with the active support and involvement of the president of the united states, is committed to releasing to the public a document that the fbi says has grave concerns contains sufficient omissions of fact as to be effectively a lie and that justice department describes as the release of as -- as an extraordinarily reckless act. and so i cannot think of a prior incident in which a president over the committed positions of both the fbi and the justice department more generally has