questions? you re reading my mind, brian, because it was almost visceral in this room as the translation came through. on a couple of these issues, including our colleagues jeff mason and jonathan lemire who asked pointed, difficult questions that many journalists have wanted to have answered and so credit to them. when we heard vladimir putin actually retroactively endorse president trump for the office he now holds, that was a striking moment. it was also striking how the president of the russian federation sort of smiled and reacted as the translation went through to him about the dossier question or having any compromising information about the president or his family. there are questions that seemed in many ways easy to answer and president trump didn t take that moment. we ve seen other presidents who have been with adversaries who could declare publicly, do not encroach on the united states,
from this what they hear. this issue is closed, that issue is closed. there are a lot of open questions still and it may not involve the president today. and to be clear we should be fair. comey said that when he left the job, there weren t open investigations of the president. that is key. but if the dossier question is opened, if compromising information is open, if trump team collusion is still open, there are things that could touch the president that are still open questions. that s exactly right. the open investigation f he wasn t aware of one at the time he was fired, certainly that raises the interest level of saying well, maybe that was part of the now investigation as to why trump was so adamant about having him no longer in office. what this did for comey is reiterate i think what s going to raise some pretty fair criticism once again which is he s so interested in being the last sign of defense for the credibility of the fbi and inherently himself that i think at times it