by a veteran espionage prosecutor. two, the white house knew that during the transition and they hired him to be national security advisor anyway. but the other reason that was stunning is because the federal prosecutor whose office convened that grand jury, the guy whose office that investigation was being run out of, the guy signing the subpoenas, was dana boente, this same guy who trump had made the acting attorney general of the united states after he fired sally yates. and in fact boente went through a whole string of jobs in the first months of the trump administration. it's important now, i think, to recognize that at every step of the way he had a key role in the russia investigation. i mean the first thing that was unusual about the way trump treated dana boente is that he kept dana boente on as the u.s. attorney in the eastern district