that i was reopening the investigation late in the year right before the election was because i was thinking politically. i was thinking she's probably going to be the president. you look at the polls. i don't want it to be said later that, you know -- >> dana: that it was not a legitimate presidency. >> yet he prides himself so much on being apolitical. on not thinking about the political consequences or certainly not the polling data. so there's something of a contradiction there. he also speaks out in sort of vague and harsh terms on his former boss loretta lynch, the former attorney general, and suggests that there was some hazey intel that suggested maybe she could have been compromised. i don't think so, but it was there. that's why i felt i had to speak out independent of her when he came out in the summer of 2016. >> dana: another one of your great lines in the review was that comey isn't just a kind of writer who quotes shake sphere,