know what john dean did to nixon? your reaction to just being mentioned in the book, apparently you are being on tv drove the president nuts. do you get the sense that the president understands the independent nature of the doj? >> well, one of the reasons i became a cnn contributor was i was hoping i could get through to him and he would understand the parallels between what he's doing and watergate. i don't think he gets it even at this date. as norm says, there are real competency questions here. he doesn't know history. he obviously knows selected figures from history. and i certainly know what i did to nixon. i told the truth about him. and that's not something that trump wants his aides talking about apparently. >> what did you think of the quote itself? the quote? >> i missed that, i'm sorry. >> what did you think of the quote itself, comey was a rat, and going onto john dean, john