but that's not what donald trump is going to say, i imagine, when he eventually weighs in on this. >> yeah, there's enough confirmation bias for any side in this. michael, this was not a good day for the fbi. you have covered the fbi for some time. what's your view on the likelihood that they will be able to pivot from this and recover from this? >> well, they have faced issues like this before. they have faced nasty inspector general's reports that raised questions about this. the question is, is, look, they have a new director. comey is long gone. the top leadership of the fbi has been cleaned out. they know they're under the microscope here, and they also have a benefit where they are not really running the mueller investigation. there are fbi agents working, but they're working for mueller. so that's sort of off to the side. so they can get back to the things that they need to do to re-establish their credibility. you know, even comey today pointing out that he thought