sos is correct in what happened, but the fact is that millions of americans have come to believe, rightly or wrongly, that something untoward took place, and it is incumbent to conduct an investigation to assure the american people that we have lead at these claims. do you have a sense of how many, how many inputs like that went from doj? because we've seen reporting about the lasers and there's been reporting about all sorts of -- and so wacky was a threshold that met opening an investigation, do you have a sense if there were more and how many? >> it is a great point. i don't have a sense of how many times this happened, but just from looking at these e-mails themselves you can tell that this was an ongoing tension between career officials in the criminal division at doj, one of whom is cited in this e-mail chain, and political leadership at the top of the justice department and rich donoghue who you just read from mentions that earlier in one of the e-mails there. he specifically says, this is