Look into that agreement and payment. If this is no longer a dispute between private parties and theyre now involved, federal prosecutors and one party to that agreement is cooperating in that investigation, thenuts are rr worth understanding whether its only the president s lawyer, Michael Cohen whos in trouble for that agreement. Or whether that trouble might extend to the president himself. And so my question. In that agreement you might remember that a pseudonym is used for both parts of the agreement. For Stormy Daniels, she agreed not to talk for 130,000. Shes called peggy peterson. Donald trump also has a pseudonym in this agreement. Hes called David Dennison. Now what does peg a epeterson mean . Your guess is as good as mine. What does Stormy Daniels mean really . But for the president s pseudonym, theres own laeone David Dennison that we know of in president ial history or agungt. This is a wire Service Story from 1889. I didnt even know they had Wire Services then. But you can see the headline. General grants secretary becomes insane. Dateline washington, october 30th, 1889, david denserson cohen who was for a time private grants sec retarsecretary. When you general grants private sec reeitary was locked up monday night a raving maniac. He is about 50 years of age. For the past year his mind has been gradually failing him. They put him in the hands of police until his relatives in fiphiladelphia could be notifie. Let the record show that in the bazar president ial porn star hush money sex scandal that led in 2018 to the fbi raiding the office and home of the president s private lawyer, the pseudonym used to refer that president in the legal agreement in question that led to all of this was lifted from american history, specifically the history of the ulyssess. Grant presidency, went stark raving crazy. Who picked that name . And why . And if in fact this particular scandal ends up driving this president crazy, can we please get a rewrite because this is getting to be over the top. Also i would totally play uly ulysse s. Grant. The president today can continued to insist that every bit of any investigation into his associates, campaign, administration is all one big witch hunt. The White House Press sec is reitary said the president has been told he has the power to fire special Counsel Robert Mueller mueller. That is technically not the case. But that doesnt mean the president hasnt been told he could do that. Allen dershowitz was spotted at the white house and somebody from marc kaz witzs lawfirm was spotted. He was fired off the russia legal Team Last Year after a reported meltdown but now someone at his firm was back at the white house premises. As the New York Times reports that the president told top staffers that he wanted to fire Robert Mueller. Thus new report from the times is the second time it has been reported that president attempted to fire Robert Mueller as special counsel. Once apparently last summer that was reportedly thwarted and now this new report from the times tonight suggests once again in december the president attempted to have Robert Mueller fired, although he didnt go through with it. All this as one of the richest men testified in congress sutting on a booster seat. Literally. Today his company, facebook, admitted that when 10s of millions of american can ss hadr data stolen, that even included any private messages you have ever exchanged with anyone on facebook. Turns out provet messages on facebook were not private. If you got scraped by Cambridge Analytica went unredakted to the comp an that steve bannon was running in 2016 while he was also running the trump campaign. So another thing that is going on you would think would be ethe biggest story in the world is the threat by the Trump Administration that theyre going to launch another military stauvo of some kind against syria. That missile strike on an empty air field in syria was basically an event in isolation. It wasnt tied to any large strategic turn. Doesnt seem to have changed anything about the course of the war or the behavior of assad. But now a year and four days after those muscle strikes, it looks like President Trump may boo er be ready to do something similar again. Woo we may be talking more this hour about the split screen about the military strike being approved by the white house while the white house fires yet more military staffers. This time its the Homeland Security advisor and the National Security counsel spokesman. Both of those men losing their jobs in the last 48 hours as bolton started at the white house yesterday. Obviously no reason you might need anybody in those jobs while youre getting ready to start a military offensive. This is one of those days when it feels like all of washington is on egg shells and somethings about to crack and fail. But in the middle of all that, i would like to pile on something new because we have a bit of a scoop tonight. This is dana bente. He first became a public official of National Interest when President Trump fired sally yates. She was the acting attorney general. She was fired after she told the white house she believed the muslim ban was likely unconstitutional. Thats the reason she was fired. But we soon learned that while she had been acting attorney general, she had personally gone to the white house to give a warning about mike flynn and his communications with the russian government which he ehad been lying about. And this all happened at the very start of the trump aed ministration. Trump got sworn in friday the 20th. Flynn was interviewed the following tuesday. On thursday, sally yates was giving the warning. Then she got called back the next day to discuss that warning further. Friday the 27th. Then there was the weekend and monday she was fired, january 30th. The whole first 10 days of the Trump Administration. She was out. She was fired, even before flynn was. One of the enduring mysteries about the russia investigation and this president and this white house is that even after these totally unprecedented warnings from the Justice Department with the acting attorney general coming in person to deliver the unprecedented warning about being compromised by a foreign power and even after that warning and subsequent warnings that day, they kept that guy on for another 18 days. They didnt fire flynn until midfebruary. An enduring mystery that has yet to be explained. A few weeks after they finally did fire flynn in may 2017 we found out that the white house had way more warning than just the heads up they got in person from sally yates. New york times was the first to report that flynn had warned the white house that he was under federal investigation. I still remember riding this dramatic headline for the first time. Trump team knew flynn was under investigation before he came to the white house. Quote michael t. Flynn told President Trumps team he was under investigation. Despite this, he made flynn his National Security advisor anyway. This is where we first learned that federal prosecutors, in fact a veteran espionage prosecutor was actively pursuing a criminal investigation with a grand jury and subpoenas and the wholetia bang. Quote the pace has intensified in recent kweeks with veteran fbi prosecutor now leading a grand jury inner anquirinquiry. It demands all records, bank records and other documents related to work with flynn and the flynn intel group, his business. The supoona are eviewed by the times was quote signed by the u. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of virginia. All right. Soethis revelation back in may was stunning at the time for a few reasons. One, president s National Security advisor was boo eing investiga being led by grand jury led by espionage prosecutor. Second, they knew that during the transition and mihired him anyway. And the federal prosecutor whose office convened that grand jury, the guy signing the subpoenas was dana boente. The same guy trump had made the acting attorney general of the United States after firing sally yates. And hooewent through a whole string of the highest jobs in the Trump Administration and its important now to recognize that every step of the way he had a key role in the russia investigation. I mean the first thing unusual about the way trump treated dana boente is that he kept him on as the u. S. Attorney general when he fired all the other attorney generals. We now learn that he was over seei seeing an investigation over michael flynn. And not just into flynn but into Paul Manafort. Trump did fire all the u. S. Attorneys last march. Boente was one of the only oneses he kept can on. And we later learned his office was leading the investigation. Then trump makes him acting attorney general. Then he became responsible for all the various threats of the russia investigation, beyond all the parts he ehad personally been helming in virginia. That lasts until Jeff Sessions comes on. Jeff sessions comes on. Boente gets another plum job, acting Deputy Attorney general. And for a few weeks was no longer responsible for over seaing the russia investigation. But only until sessions had to recuse himself. Then he was back over seeing all the parts of the russia investigation wunlsonce again. In that capacity, we now know he signed off on the fisa warrant against carter page. And then even after he got moved out of that job, after Rod Rosenstein took over, boente was still instrumental to the russia investigation because trump then gave boente another awesome job. And we learned just last week that in that capacity boente personally signed off on some of the criminal charges brought against Paul Manafort when he was first indicted. So boente, not the most memorable looking guy in the world. Hes everywhere. Or maybe hes the forest gump. Choose your movie. But he really has played a key role and at times the key top supervisory role in the russia investigation all the way back to the beginning. And ill tell you at a personal level, i remain convinced theres some interesting storay to tell about why boente got fired. Right when manafort got fired for the first time, he was abruptly told to resign. He held those jobs that same time. They bruptly told him to resign. I believe there is a story to tell there and some day we will tell it, mark my words. But boente ultimately got a soft landing. Then the fbi hired him on as their general counsel, which is where he works now. And arguably means he still has an Important Role to play in the russia investigation. As fbi increasingly comes under attack. So dana boente is the man in the middle from the very beginning here. Hes right at the heart of all of this. And heres what we figured out. Heres our little scoop. We have obtained some documents that have not previously been seen or reported on. We have authenticated them to the best of your ability and what we believe they show is a few important things about boente and the russia investigation. First, we can report exclusively ethat he has been asked to be interviewed in the russia investigation. We know that because of this letter, which we have obtained. Its dated january 2nd, 2018. Its from dana boente while he was still acting head at the Justice Department. To another Justice Department official notifying doj this eare equest has come in. Its addressed to scott schools. Hes the senior most careered attorney at the Justice Department. Special counsel robert muraler has asked to interview me as part of the investigation to interfere in the 2016 election. I do not submit, special counsel mueller ewould have the ability to subpoena. I served as acting attorney general you see it says february 2011. You think he means 2017 but that typo is unexplained in terms of the letter. And as head of the National Security division from april to the present and writing january of this year. As the acting Deputy Attorney general, i was responsible for the Overall Department of justice. And i was also responsible for the investigation of the russian governments interference in the 2016 eelection. This concerns activities in the bounds and scope of my duties in the department of justice. I have no reason to believe im a subject of target of the investigation. So dana boente is not a subject or a target. That means hes a witness for the investigation. That means hes notifying the senior career in justice that hes been called in to give witness testimony from muellerer and he closes this letterer by asking for legal representation. He says quote i am requesting representation or a commitment for the reimbursement of legal fooes. So egigive me ep a a lawyer provide me with legal fees. And we havent confirmed boente actually did a interview with the mueller team. But this letter indicates dana boente has been asked to do so. Whos now the general counsel of the fbi. And now hes where it gets good. We have also obtained this document from another senior Justice Department official. This time the head of the Counterintelligence Division of the fbi. And its an unusual thing. You can can csee this letter isd two weeks after he was notified the Justice Department wanted to talk to him and its essentially a certification for boente that a certain set oof notes that he took, hand written notes that were marked by a Justice Department employee as top secret, those are not actually top secret at all. Check it out. Quote dear mr. Boente and then you see the you. I think that means this is unclassified. This letterer serves as conformation under my authority as an fbi official excuse me fbi original classification authority, that your hand written notes from your conversation with former director comey are unclassified. Understanding they were marked as top secret without your consultation, this letter memorializes a dually authorized finding that contents of your note are not top secret or classified lat. Youre getting the importance here. That very start of january, boente asks for legal representation or a commitment to pay legal fees. Couple of weeks later, he gets a certification that his notes, hand written notes from specific conversation with james comey should not be marked top secret. Now we dont know for sure because these are theve got. What we surmise is that hes getting his ducks in a row while preparing for his interview with muellerer or preparing to hand over those notes to muellerer as part of this interview. We have also obtained those handwritten notes from dana boente from james comey while he was fbi director. Specifically in which comey says he was pressured by the president about the russia investigation. This is key to the question of whether or not the president may be criminally liable to obstruction of justice. Comey said that the president had pressured him in a phone call of march 30th of last year. H quote immediate laeafter that conversation i called acting Deputy Attorney general, boente to report the substance of the call from the president. This is a key matter. Comey says the president pressured him. The white house responded by saying the president did no such thing. Comey says i have cooperating evidence and thats that i told other senior Justice Department and fbi officials about what happened between me and the president about what happened at the time it happened. Since that time. Comey and his subjects have been fired. Attacked for almost a year. Also deputy fbi directorer mccabe fired and attacked in much the same way. Mccabe says its because he can corroborate comeys testimony from his interactions at the time. Other people debriefed at the time have been mysteriously demoted ore attacked by the president ever since. Hes been picking off those witnesses one by one. And yeah, he did end up getting pushed out of the Justice Department by mysterious circumstances but hes at the fbi now as their general counsel and we have obtained what we believe are boentes notes from the troubling time with comey and those notes do corroborate in striking terms impactly what cocomey says happened. Before now nobody has ever seen these contemp rainious notes. But we have them tonight and were going to. Hi leaving a career to follow a calling takes courage. A personalized Financial Strategy can give you confidence to take the next step. Hi guys aw yeah see how access to j. P. Morgan investment expertise can help you. Chase. Make more of whats yours. Sometimes you need an expert. I got it. And sometimes those experts need experts. On it. 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So on occasion from this call, you should know comey was still fbi directorer and he was phoning boente to report what had just happened between him and the president. He would later explain he took notes himself on this interaction and briefed otherer senior law enforce omntficials about this interaction with the president and others. Because he believed those interactions were, for lack of a better term or phrase important and unusual. You wanted to make sure there was a are record of those interactions. The president would later denounce james comey as a liarer, saying his counts of his interactions with the president were not true but now for the first time we can con compare comeys public statements with the notes taken by someone who comey briefed about that same day. You can see the heading here and thats crossed out. And thats crossed out by the head official at the fbi who provides a cover letter showing this top secret was affixed in errorer and these notes are not in fact classified. Comey march 30th, 2017, 8 13 a. M. And then it says here in the notes, cloud. Ass a result of russia business. This makes running the can country difficult. Thats in boentes hand written notes as what comey edescribed the president as saying to him. Compare that to what james comey himself said publicly about the interaction with the president. You describe two phone calls you received from President Trump, one on march 30th and one on april 11th where he quote described the russia investigation ass a cloud that was impairing his ability end quote as president and asked you quote to lift the cloud end quote. How did you intrp areerate that . And what did you believe he wanted you to do . I interpreted that as he was frustrated that the russia investigation was taking up so much time and energy i think he meant of the executive branch but in the Public Square in general and it was making it difficult for him to focus on other priorities of his. So comey tells congress the russia business was a cloud the president believed was impairing his ability as president. Thats what he said to congress out loud. Comey explains that the same way to dana boente according to these notes. Quote cloud as a result of russia business this makes running the country very difficult. That closely tracks his public testimony with what he apparently told dana boente that day. On the morning of march 30th, the president called me at the fbi, he edescribed the russia investigation as a cloud impairing his ability to run the count cannery e. Hooeehad not been involved with hookers in russia. Always assumed he was being recorded while he was in russia. I said we were investigating the matter as quick laas we could and there would be great benefit to our having done the work well. President agreed but reemphasized the problems this was causing him. Whats thats what james come a etestified in his testimony to congress. In these written notes thats what it appears he told boente too. Quote what can can i do to relieve the cloud . Kept coming back to it making it hard to do business for the count rae. We will do the work well. Again comeys testimony to congress about the president s call to him march 30 ths closely tracking what these notes say he told dana boente about the president s call. And for this second to last one, lets go back to the Comey Exchange with feinstein. There will boo eea little overlap but watch this until the end. You describe two phone calls you receive from President Trump, one on march 30 and one april 11 where he quote described the russia investigation as cloud that was impairing his ability end quote as president and asked you quote to lift the cloud end quote. How did you interpret that . And what did you believe he wanted you to do . I interpreted that as he was frustrated that the russia investigation was taking up so much time and energy i think he meant oof the executive branch but in the Public Square in general and it was making it difficult for him to focus on other priorities of his. But what he asked me was actually narrower than that. So i think what he meant by the cloud, and i could be wrong, but the entire investigation is taking up oxygen and making it hard to focus on the things i want to focus on. The ask was to get it out that i, the president am not personally under investigation. The ask was to get it out that i, the president , wasnt personally under investigation. Thats what comey said about the president s specific request and the call march 30th, 2017. Heres what comey told boente that same day. From boentes notes quote reminded him we are not investigating you. That would be great to get out. So comey tells congress what the president asked him to do was announce the president wasnt under investigation. Comey apparently used that same description when he called boente that day to brief him on the president s behavior. Part of the obstruction of justice concern here is that the president shouldnt have been calling comey anyway, shouldnt have been making a direct call about an ongoing investigation. The president shouldnt be having soloo one on one about the russia investigation. He explained that according to the rules he shouldnt be talking to the president about this alone at all. Did you goeto anyone at the department of justs and ask them to call the White House Counsels Office and explain that the president had to have a far better understanding and appreciation of his role, visa vee the fbi . I spoke to the attorney general and the new attorney general, rosenstein when he took office about my concern about the way the president is interacting. And as i said in my testimony, i told the attorney general it cant happen that you get kicked out of the room and he talks to me. Told the attorney general it cant happen and i cant be having these conversations with the president alone. He says he threat Justice Department know, the attorney general know it cant be the attorney general gets kicked out and the president talks to the fbi directorer alone. Thats what comey says to congress about what his conversations were like on this subject. Well, turns out the notes we have obtained indicate he told boente the same thing. I cannot be speaking with the president alone. So the fbi director james come a etold congress about his basically strange interactions with the president on the russia investigation. He says he had these interactions about the russia investigation that were strange and then the president fired him. Frrsh the president later told visiting russian officials and lester holt that firing of james comey did have to do with the russia investigation. The president yesterday made public claims that firing come a ewas the right thing to do. He ehas spent the last year saying hes somebody who lied publicly before he was fired by the president. Well, these notes, which we believe are dana boentes first hand written notes from his conversation with comey after the march 30th call, this is the first contemporaneous evidence weve seen about what jamess comey told other officials that time about the president s behavior and as best we ecan tell, it matches the statements about the president s behavior. Now, woo eevea few other documents we eare still reporting. This is what weve got so far. I should tell you we vereached out to the Justice Department, no comment. Weve reached out to come canny, noecomment. Boente, no comment. But were working on changing as much of those as we can. This car is literally my baby. Which is why i use armor all ultra shine wash wipes. They effectively remove dirt, dust and grime with no water. That car is in tip top shape we are both in tip top shape armor all, its easy to look good. Jimmys gotten used to his whole yup, hes gone noseblind. Odors. He thinks it smells fine, but his mom smells this. 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Kept coming back to it makes it hard to do business for the count rae. We will do the work well. All of that echoing almost to the exact phrase the way comey described the president s behavior and statements under oath laterer to the senate. And this note where comey appears to have told boente i cannot be speaking with the president alone. And joining us an eloquent legal observerer ein this matter. Let me ask your top line response. Ive been imeshed in trying to get comment and i feel like im seeing the trees but not the forest. Now that you have learned this information as our viewers have, what is your reaction . I was interested unhow i think this does a couple things. One is its part of building a case for obstruction of justice. Firing comey by itself was sufficient arguably to build an obstruction of justice case. You need to establish quote corrupt intent. You can can only get in the mind of trump through a couple things. It helps that he told comey i was thinking about the russia investigation. H he tells lavrov in the oval office. But a prosecutor is going to want to go backward and say this is part of a pattern. So even if this is the firing itself, previous meetings and contacts between the president the person he fired, leading up to the firing end up being legally important because they go 92 why and whether or not. Thats exactly right. You need two big pieces. One is a bad act, which would be firing comey and then you need mental element, which is what was in the persons mind and so that intent we have lautsz of different pieces of evidence. Comeys testimony and contemporaneous notes show its not just a he said she said but you have comey backed up with those notes. So it would be important not to compare. Comey has contemporaneous notes. It would be and so ewe know in terms oof evidence of what happened between comey and the president , understanding why you just said that would be umpoimportant for criminal case. We know comey said he took notes and those memos were shared with other people and we believe the mueller investigation. We know, at least isin the case appears to have orally briefed in that moment and they took notes. Im getting pretgy at reading boentes handwriting. It seems detailed including quotes. Does the weight of them, the number of them matter . You cant really carbon date from a year ago. But you look at the notes. Its not just a sliver or a cut out. You see the notes were taken over time and youd ask a jury to look that and realize those were over a series of weeks that it looks like theyre in the flow of a narrative. And its not like it was a perfect science about thus. But when you line up notes together and you show that theyre contemporaneous, thats arer a way they do it. For this ubstreobstruction case theyre so consistent with what comey said. I want to go back to valentines day where there was a conversation between trump and komy where he says to comey flynn is a good guy. Flynn had just been fired. Immediate lae. And on february 14th goes to comey and said flynn is a good guy. How about letting him go. Thats a more direct intervention. Thats more than saying can can you lift a cloud . I dont think iyou can base an obstruction case on lifting a cloud. But ifuts a its part of a chai vents, thats trump getting into this investigation trying to obstruct thissings have. And if you remember this tweet that trump wrote, that hooesaid whereby wrote that tweet. This is december 3rd of the past year. John dowd may have been he said i wrote that tweet. The tweet said i had to fire flynn because he lied to the fbi. Because he lied to the fbi. Thats not what trump claimed before. Its not a crime to tlie vice president. But it is a crime to lie to the fbi. So when the tweet says he lied to the fbi. Thats why he fired him. That means trump knew, at least evidence from thus tweet. So did comey, with his notes and go back to his published testimony before the senate. Bottom of page five and top of page six, comey says i spoke to the depute a eattorney general who was at that time the u. S. Attorney general for the Eastern District which is boente. What youve broken tonight suggests that boente was keeping these notes all along the way. I would be curious if boente also has notes from that pivotal february 14th conversation. And we believe he sent them to Robert Mueller. Its great to have you here. Thank you very much. When trying to save for the big things in life, we tend to start small. Less of this. Cut back on that. But if it feels like a lot of effort for a little gain, change that. Start with something that makes a big difference. Your student loans. Refinancing with sofi could save you 30,000. 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And he sought to fire mueller in june last summer but he backed down when the white House Counsel refused to give the order. And cnn is reporting trump is concan sidering firing Rod Rosenstein, the acting attorney general. According to people familiar. And another includes firing the attorney general, Jeff Sessions. This is all in eresponse to the fbis raid on the office of President Trumps lawyer. They say rosenstein is his most likely target but unclear if that would be eenough to satisfy the president. And congress min schiff, its nice to see you. Thank you for being here. Bunch of breaking news tonight. I first want to get your reaction 92 the reports that th president is looking into firing the acting attorney general and took steps to fire Robert Mueller in december. It looks certainly like part of a pattern. If indeed he fired james comey and these notes certainly corroborate james comey and mccabe was strongly krauberative and you follow on with a firing of rosenstein or mueller with a reason to obstruct with what may lead to him, that looks like part of a powerful pattern and you esee these reports that theyre trying to concoct a justification. Maybe they could focus on the memo about how comey shouldnt be discussing the clint cannen email investigation. You have to chase down a rabbit hole to understand how that theorys supposed to work. Theyre going to fire rod rosensteen because he did what the president asked and produced a memo. So it does look like a growing body of evidence that hes trying to obstruct an investigation that may be leading to him. Dana boente has been an unusually large number of different Law Enforcement positions that had an importa importaImportant Role in that investigation. They were pursuing grand jury interviews into flynn and manafort. As acting attorney general, after Jeff Sessions was rekwcus, heall soeover saw the investigation and signed off on charges against manafort and as general counsel, hes in an unusual position facing attacks from the president. Were reporting tonight that boente has been summend to give an interview ass a witness to the mueller investigation. As a prosecutor, before you embark on interviews of people who corroborate james comey, you have to ask lets assume everything james comey said was true, does that constitute evidence of obstruction of justice . And i agree that the suggestion or the dictate from the president that comey drop the flynn case is the single most significant action that the president asked for. But if your answer is no, then you dont do those interviews. But if your answerer is if we can accept or prove what comey said was true, that would constitute obstruction of justice, then you go through these interviews. So i think its significant that not only dana boente and mccabe and others are being brought before the special counsel and each of these witnesses has been the subject of either firing or disciplinary action or attack by the president or his allies. So you look at baker, who was the prior general counsel for comey, has been the subject of attack. Come ay of course has been fire and been the subject of attack. Boente and mccabe was fired. So all of those witnesses who corroborate james comey are in a position to do so have been the subject of efforts to undermine them and i dont think thats a coincidence. Let me ask you about that when it comes specifically to boen boente. It may be innocent, have nothing to do with the overall russia scandal. But it remain as strange story to me that boente was are removed from the Justice Department. The reporting is that although he resigned was directed that he should resign both as inNational Security division and u. S. Attorney generals office. Part of the reason we were able to report that out is because boente had told people just a few days before the resignation he was looking forward to running the u. S. Attorneys office full time. That happened around the time manafort was indicted for the first time. Do you know anything, as the top democrat about why boente was fired, who fired him or whether it was related to this scandal . I dont know the answerer to that and the only thing that occurs to me is if there was some issue with boente that could give the president or any of his people cause to have an issue with him, you would think it would be unlikely he would be brought in as general counsel for the fbi. So i dont know the reason why he was fired from those two positions or forced to resign from them but given that he was taken on by directorer ray, im sure is trying to dot every i and cross every t that may be unlikely to happen if he was pushed out because of his handling of the manafort case. Really appreciate your time here tonight. That does it for us tonight. Good evening, rachel. I was taking notes, learning all about dana boente. Taking notes about his notes. It was really extraordinary to see you revealing those actual handwritten notes which i would have not expected to see until they were introduced as exhibits either in a courtroom or in hearing in the congress. It really is as far as the notes go, a word for word corroboration of what james comeys testimony is. You know, it what it tells me as a lay Madeleine Albright looking at that stuff is people who are trained in the fbi and in the Justice Department, people who are trained as high level prosecutors in Law Enforcement personnel are trained to take really goo