and so to say now after the fact that the distribution of those memos somehow implicates or even violates the executive pref ledge that the president is entitled to assert doesn t seem to me aveiling. i don t think they violate executive privilege. i think it s a very bad idea to do what mr. comey did. and some people are arguing the fact that president tweeted about it further complicateses the matter. i want to move on to the tweets. tweets confuse everything. they certainly do. especially in this administration. and they also may constitute a waiver, if you will, if the director s proposition is probably ideally it s not good for either party to discuss private conversations in public, then the shoe fits on each foot and the president shouldn t be doing it as well and then complaining about others who try to do the same. so no one has clean hands here. sure. ambassador, i really want to get your perspective on this.