wasn t honorable? he did. and i specifically said that. comey felt that all the way up to the president that there was a not honorable way of approaching their interactions. one of the questions that i asked him was, if comey felt this was so bad, if this was so egregious, if he was asking you for a loyalty oath, why not quit? why not blow the whistle or go public with all of this? and he said his sense that comey felt he could manage it, that it didn t rise to the level of needing to quit and he used a phrase saying i think comey could throw enough brushback pitches at the president to keep him at bay and manage the relationship. of course, we know several weeks after that last meeting between comey and whitis comey was fired. there are open questions about how comey really felt and what he was willing to do with