is he just placating the president or is he saying, look, we're going to be very open about this to prove maybe that it didn't happen? what is he trying to do here? >> the inspector general's role in the justice department is to investigate waste, fraud and abuse. that's what's in their job description. so they previously had assigned the responsibility to look into the fisa and find out if there were problems, the whole discussion on whether it was based on the steele dossier, what was going on there, this is an expansion of that. and, look, the president is entitled to ask the justice department if he thinks something illegal happened, he's demanding, a little more aggressive, a little more problematic. but at the end of the day, the right thing to do here is to hand over to the independent ig who reports to congress and to look into this across the board. you might wonder if the justice department can be trusted. they're in the justice department they're an outside entity. >> when rosenstein takes that -- takes that perspective, that position of basically okay, fine, have a look at it, what to