into twitter and a social media and create fake news stories -- i actually think this could be very, very useful overall for not just america but for the civilized world to push back against russia in some sort of robert silverman type report that would be accepted in their conclusion. >> i think as you lay that out without a special counsel, president trump could be dealing with this not for weeks or months, but maybe years. you could get a fast investigation to look at everything, john mccain last night as a senior republican said this is becoming something like watergate, drip, drip. the american people are not going to have respect for the investigation if it's done by people who are seen as close to the president, it must be some sort of independent probe to your point, this could be important for this white house to have some sort of good housekeeping seal of approval that this is not a crony of president trump who was looking at this.