of russia. that has taken off according to a new report in the "new york times." joining me now is steven hadley also, the former national security adviser to george w. bush. thanks so much for being here. what's your reaction to the comments, president trump saying this not nice thing about the fbi director and then saying i was under great pressure because of russia and now that's taken off? >> well, look, it's hard to know. i mean, we have. you know, supposedly records of the comey has of the conversations he had with the president, the president signaled maybe he has some records of those conversations. we now have a record of a meeting in the oval office read to a "new york times" reporter. i mean, this is why we need a systematic by the book investigation to pull the facts together and be able to explain the american people what happened and if there was some criminal activity then to get to the bottom of it. we've got to find a way though to get -- president trump needs to find a way to get this behind