certainly been surprised at the amount of information that the attorney general has put forward. this letter that he wrote to congress and then certainly today a lot more information than many of us expected. and laura, we know all democrats are not satisfied with this report, especially on the issue of obstruction. we all remember, barr sent a memo to senior justice officials before he was nominated and confirmed as attorney general. and he was critical of mueller s obstruction probe specifically. remind us about that, and its significance. he was. it was a 19-page missive that he came up with apparently unsolicited back in june of 2018 before he was attorney general. he was just a private citizen musing around about obstruction of justice theories based solely on what he had read and seen on tv, apparently. and it s interesting. several months ago when this issue first rose and we learned that he wrote it, i can remember being at a press conference where the deputy attorney