did provoke the firing of comey and that was the violation, that obstruction. so one republican who has been very critical of the president is senator ben sass. here s what he had to say about the impact of the president s firing of comey. i m not sure how this president makes lots of decisions, so i honestly don t know. but i do know that we are in the midst of a civilization warping crisis of public trust and we need to talk honestly about our institutions that need to be restored and need to have the ability for people in five and eight and ten years to trust these institutions. so, brian, your reaction to that? the civilization-warping crisis. well, we re in an odd time. and i think he s got a point but i don t think that s a partisan issue. i think so many americans don t trust our politicians from both sides of the aisle. and people s temperatures have turned so far up. people are just so angry to the point of like just sort of