manufacturing james comby of manufacturing the entire russia probe based on a, quote, fraudulent trump dossier, again, reasserting the completely false assertion that the only reason the fbi was investigating donald trump was the dossier accusing the former director of the fbi of in venting an investigation against the president of the united states. to do all of that on the record has got to be the most unusual thing a lawyer has ever done. i'm not a lawyer, so you tell me if i'm wrong. >> you're absolutely not wrong. it's completely bizarre. and it's completely strange because john dowd because this isn't public couldn't have had the i.g. report, so he doesn't know any more than you or i or anyone else what's in the report to make it a fireable defense. as we said earlier, we haven't had the defense put forward yet. he was fired without the ability