that's the first person they're going to go to. the doj will be digesting it, probably be able to see it as well and that's going to be the first line of defense to communicate with him to figure out what parts of this do we not like. do we want to exert executive privilege over. >> also we've talked about this letter to chuck grassley that you brought up that was -- resurfaced in the last several hours. i know one of the things that stood out to you, shan, sort of the length that this letter went to by rod rosenstein to emphasize the doj's historical resistance as you put it to certain congressional requests's that is setting up an interesting little fight i would say in and of itself. >> yeah. certainly is. really kind of drawing a line in the sand. i mean, as someone who's worked at doj in leadership offices that's certainly true. i don't think either congress or rosenstein needed to be reminded of any of those tensions. but he's saying, look, the special prosecutor under our regulations is a doj prosecutor