investigation, unfocused and zeroing in on what they say are the political motivations of people inside the agency. we are still at that moment here where the president says he's not going to fire him, but there is a lot of work behind the scenes. >> yeah, i think wide ranging and also never ending, christine, if you come at it from the republican perspective. that is the political angle to this right now. how much have we heard this year, that term, deep state, didn't go mainstream until 11 or 12 months ago. now, we hear this talk all the time about career agents and the fbi and various intelligence agencies having it out for the president of the united states. >> what's interesting about that, what's interesting to me about that is, that is, i would say, people who worked inside the fbi say it tends to lean conservative. >> historically, very conservative. that number, according to former