team are appointees of this president so that makes the whole situation even stranger. but i think -- i'm not so sure there's a conflict necessarily for deputy attorney general rosenstein, i think at least initially he will -- it will be his dilemma in terms of responding to whatever demand the president may issue tomorrow. but i think part of that dilemma is the fact that arguably, a demand for such an investigation is a demand for a political investigation in and of itself. and again, in my experience with doj, and at the fbi, the department simply doesn't do politically motivated investigations, so to the extent that the deputy tone general and the doj sees this as a politically motivated demand, that poses real problems for the department. >> and all of this related to the probe of russia, how russia may have influenced the