former federal prosecutor who worked in the area of corruption for many years. he is these days a presser at georgetown law school. professor, i don't know where to begin. did he -- is there anything actionable about what he just said? >> i needed marie yovanovitch out of the way, in the prosecution business, we call that a confession. so he wanted her to stop working on the real corruption which was her area of expertise. and he wanted -- he was concerned that she wouldn't go along with what trump wanted, was this announcement of a fake investigation that would be in trump's political interests. the reason why this is so galling is first of all, we know that parnas and fruman, giuliani associates, were indicted for basically the same course of conduct, trying to get rid of ambassador yovanovitch and we know this is particularly troublesome for her because she