will have a press conference and i won t say what i have to say and i told her that i hope some day, you will understand that. i was not loing this. i knew it would be disastrous for me personally, but it is the best way to protect the institutions that we care so much about. and democrats fired back asking him why he did not acknowledge the ongoing probe of the elections with the trump associate after the election. if there had been renewed interest? the investigations of both cam tains, the impact would have been different, do you believe? no. i have thought a lot about this and my opinion is that we have to separate two things. it is important to call out what the russians were trying to do with the election, and i offered in august myself to be a voice for that in a public piece calling it out, and the obama administration did not take advantage in august, but they did in october, and it is important to call out. reporter: and revelations about how disgraced former