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Staffing in all sensitive investigations. as to the congressional question, my view is we have an obligation to be responsive to legitimate congressional oversight. thats part of our job. as i said at the beginning, we are entrusted with enormous power. so we should expect we are going to get tough questions, and we need to be responsive and cooperate with that. but -- but we also have an obligation to protect sources and methods and not to compromise ongoing criminal investigations and to adher...

Faith in their oversight efforts given that they have disagreed with the characterizations of the meetings? >> i think congress has a job to do. and we have a job to do. together we are trying various are presented by the tensions between congressional oversight and protection of sources, methods, ongoing investigations, and things like that. were committed to trying to work through those thoing things with congress. >> one more question. >> us i-know you dont want to identify the people who are...

Opinions, no matter where they are communicated. what i am going to do is talk about the opinions that i think matter, the opinions to me that matter are the opinions of the people that are relevant to our workday in day out all across the country. we have 37,000 fbi employees, agents, analysts and staff, and scores of task force officers that work with them. and every day, every day, all around this country, around the world those people are having to make important decisions that protect lives...

Or stanford. it is a not a fluke. we just hired a bunch of interns. the young people coming out of college who have lots of choices about what they want to do with their careers. we have had the highest number of applicants we ever had for our honors intern application. that admission rate was 5%. i look at things like that. what people think when they know us and what people think when they express our views to their actions. i look at the attribution rate. in the fbi its 0. %. in my view, the ...

>> disappointed. yes. >> why disappointed? >> have you ever suesed your personal e-mail address for any fbi business? >> not that i can think of. >> some people are going the use this report to criticize the mueller investigation because strzok worked on both investigations. -- [ inaudible ] integrity and credibility, also some people are criticizing you for making mistakes by sharing documents with the congress. how do you respond to criticisms that you might be making mistakes now by sharing i...

Things. one this is no shortage of opinions about us out there. i will tell you that the opinions that i care the most about are the opinions of the people who actually really know us and know us through our work. so i am focused on what a jury is thinking when our agents take the stand. what our junes think when we give them a search warrant. im focus on what victims and their families think when they are asked who do you trust to get your child back? im focused on what do our state and local l...

The fact -- congress find out after the fact that they had this information before the election, et cetera, and that it could have blown up in their face -- what do you make of that argument? s a i war game that scenario i think comey is right? >> hes right but it has something to do with what has been an asymmetric way the parties are treating the fbi and the justice department. what was going through his mind i think stretches back to the reason he had that press conference. he talked -- some ...

Is plenty in this report that all sides are going to exaggerate. it is easy to pluck something out and devoid it of the conexthe. that said, the actions are really bad. egregious things, fbi agents investigating thing like possible collusion between the president and russia who by the way are the same agents also investigating on the clinton side should not be texts things like this to one another. the broader point that i think needs to come through is that the overall integrity of what the bur...

Complicated investigation conducted over a long period of time under the most difficult of political circumstances and you write a 560-page report detailing every aspect of it, you are likely to find a bunch of things that werent done in the best way possible or in some cases were not done well at all. and in some cases where you just disagree with the judgments that were made. so you see all of those in different aspects of this report. that said, at the end of the day, what the report does not...

Reticent is will be heard loudly around the fbi building. and i think a lot of people in that building will, you know, worry that the leadership is not standing up for the rank and file of the institution or is is not doing it as aggressively as people would like. >> matt miller, i was amused by the director saying they are going to put all these fbi agents through the new training. im thinking, okay, but youre in the middle of perhaps the single most important investigation in the history of th...