i, too, have been told by people who are familiar with what comey at the time told congress is that this was a big, big part of his reasoning for taking this away from the justice department. and just kind of big picture, this isn't just kind of, of course, a process question of whether it's the fbi or the justice department, this is about something that could have really very much fundamentally changed the course of the presidential campaign because of the way that he spoke. yes, he did a press conference initially saying i'm not going to press charges, but then he also said some pretty devastating things about hillary clinton that would not have happened had he followed normal -- >> keep in mind. >> -- protocol. because of the -- >> what's interesting about this, we have been warned as the stolen e-mails were coming out during the campaign, clinton dnc e-mails, about russian tactics and this goes back to soviet days, pre-cyber days, of sneaking fake stuff in with the