of you on. and mike, first to you. you saw once comey sort of inserted himself in the public specter last summer, you saw this already as a lose/lose for him. tell me why. >> he definitely had become the story. so any discussion about any investigation, whether it was done by the bureau or the house and sept, he say sort of front and center in a way that is not what you would expect. but also, you know, frankly, his shelf life was limited regardless of who was going to win the presidential election. by that i mean does anyone think that somehow hillary clinton after what director comey did particularly in that appearance at the podium was going to keep his job for any length of time if hillary had won? so i think the window was closing on james comey.