one of the things that sticks out is what we see consistently from the president in terms on of a clear focus on what is happening not only with the investigation, a focus on andrew mccabe and a misunderstanding, i would say, of how government works in certain respects. this was early on for the president, obviously in 2017. but we're seeing consistently questions from him and even from his staff in terms of reince priebus that are not always appropriate and show perhaps that lack of understanding, josh. >> you're spot-on. i think it's important at the outset to step back and just look at what we have. these are con temp rainous observations of one party to the conversation. it's fair to point out this isn't some new source is of information. a lot of this is coming from the same person, jim comey. we want to caution against what the fbi calling circular reporting. you think this corroborates what