day-to-day responsibilities. >> and this comes back to the issue of the u.s. attorneys in the sense of the trump administration has developed a deep paranoia for what they call the deep state career employees in the government they say are out the to get them or against their agenda, working in the shadows against them. perhaps that's part of the reason they're coming out. but this does seem to be a part of it, doesn't it? >> it's really kind of hard to say exactly why this is all kind of clumsy and messy. it's not ha hard to do and you do it administration to administration. sometimes there are disagreements about who ought to have more responsibility. when i was dci in the early '90s, we thought the fbi was trying to get too much authority over counterintelligence that we ought to have and they thought we were trying to get too much authority over counterintelligence. there's these normani pushes and tugs between different parts of the bureaucracy, but it doesn't