concluded that steele's reporting was bunk after talking to his subsource. i didn't -- as director you're not kept informed on details of a an investigation no, in general i didn't know what they learned from the subsource. i didn't know the particulars of the investigation. chris: this isn't just some investigation, sir. this is an investigation of the campaign of the man who is the president of the united states. you just been through a firestorm investigating hillary clinton. i would think if i were in your position i would have been on that, you know, like a junkyard dog. i would have wanted to know everything they were doing in investigating the trump campaign? >> that is not the way it works though. as director sitting on top of a organization of 38,000 people you can't run an investigation that is seven layers below you. you have to leave it to the career professionals to do, to special agents do this for their lives. if a director tries to run an investigation it will get mucked up in all different kinds of ways, given his or her responsibility as impossibility