that, you know, there had to be investigations of both sides. sort of notion of, you know, parodpa parity, many of the familiar threads talking about his concerns about the fbi, james comey, all this other stuff. he did not to his credit threaten any specific action against the attorney general after the midterms but he also didn't give a lot of reason to believe he was going to change his mind about the direction he's been going and of course republicans in congress in recent days have been essentially giving him permission to do whatever he wants after the midterms but suggesting it would be really bad to act before then and seemed to be signaling tonight, yes, i agree we can stop talking about this, it's going to be sess until the election. >> you also asked the president if he thinks he messed up about the way he handled john mccain's death. what did he say? >> yes, i want to preface this by saying we began this interview with a lot of economic questions. and we spent a lot of time