i think it s important for the american people to understand the counterintelligence and intelligence work in the fbi is by far the most regulated part of the fbi. there are agents who don t even want to work counterintelligence because you got to keep the rule book in your top drawer. i lived as a counterintelligence agent with the attorney general guidelines in the top drawer of my desk and referred to them daily until i had memorized entire portions of them. that s how heavily regulated it is. any notion that some agent can withy nilly open a case on the president of the united states is misguided. the level of review, the department of justice review, the number of lawyers that would have to have touched this to allow this to happen is almost immeasurable. so i want to try to dispel that nation, that there would have to be multiple points of failure, multiple people in the conspiracy to even open this case and it s just wholly unrealistic to think that happened. we re so grateful