your committee if his work is completed? >> well, i think he could potentially conclude if the report is publicly available that it speaks for itself. and certainly he has taken the position that he's declined to be public in his communication with the american people. he's let his work speak for itself to date. he may let the report speak for itself. but it will be critical that the report is seen by the american people. >> and congressman hymes, it's entirely possible the report won't speak for itself because as the rules suggest it can be a really minimal report simply saying here are the prosecutions we brought and here's why, here are the prosecutions we declined to bring, the so-called declinations in that rule, and here's why. and those -- that could be basically written in shorthand. >> yeah, that's right. lawrence, there's two reasons why these types of reports are generally kept private. one is -- and in this case this would be true.