your former colleagues. a lot of the folks you are still in touch with at the fbi. give us a reality check on morale and how you think they will fare. >> well, my first response when i saw this reporting was that i just wish it hadn't happened. you know, to be honest with you and i'm a huge champion of freedom of the press and this needs to get out and public service, but i also know that we have a president that is mercurial at best and i'm concerned he's going to react in a way to this, we have already seen some communication from the white house tonight that causes him to act out against special counsel mueller and/or rod rosenstein before it's time, before they have done their job. that's troubling to me. the other thing we'll keep hearing is the notion of deep state. this notion there's a conspiracy somehow, that there's a rogue fbi or was a rogue fbi.