had repeated contacts during the presidential campaign. if the white house now doesn t like that reporting and even disagrees with that reporting and they think the fbi hasn t been forthcoming about what they disagree with in that reporting, what should they do? they re pressing the fbi to speak publicly. what should they do to make their case? first of all, they shouldn t contact the fbi. again, that is against the rules. i m old enough to remember a couple months ago when ex-president clinton sat on a runway with then attorney general lynch and had a conversation. that blew up the republican party. mind you, that wasn t a sitting president, that wasn t the boss. so there is no doubt in my mind that if this story broke in an alternative eun verse with a president clinton, articles of