substantiative in it, but it was short. and you certainly come to the conclusi conclusion, well, this is perfectly legitimate, but shuler, there's more thinking and so on. and i think we're just seeing that being reflected now. i think they're putting it in the form of a timeline was useful, but really, this was the right decision, not necessarily done the right way. >> well, it sounds like the rod rosenstein letter was just in impertinent based upon what the president told lester holt, that he made this call irrespective of anyone's recommendations, which is in total contradiction to the original story from the white house. >> maybe so, right, and he says things like that. but, look, rosenstein was the first career professional in the hierarchy, you know, jeff sessions came from the senate, of course. and then you had a career person, as is traditional for the deputy attorney general, and less than two weeks in, they had this discussion and he made his recommendation. and had the career professionals said the opposite, i kind of