bloodletting, by the way. you had a president who was threatening these people. >> talking about executing a spy and the whistle-blower and the people who fed the spy information are his people. >> right. >> and you don't think he's going to go into the white house and try and line up a firing squad and figure out who are the people who talked to the whistle-blower? i mean -- >> right. >> this is going to be a real problem in the white house. >> to bob's point, i think it's worth worth amplifying this a little bit. bob, correct me if i'm wrong about this, most white house counsels are involved with national security more than people know in the sense that there are legal decisions that have to be made about actions that may be taken by a president or, you know, direct strikes on terrorists, for example and in this case if you're raising the spector of an investigation it's quite possible that not just underlings, but that the white