agent and senior fellow at the foreign policy research institute. gentlemen, what did you make of that testimony? i thought he was powerful in defending the fbi, which he served his whole life. your thoughts. >> i agree, chris. i thought you heard the most emotion in his voice during that portion of his testimony. and, you know, it's because the things thathe white house said about comey and the fbi just weren't true, demonstrably. clint will speak to this, but i have friends who work there, and they said, look, nobody agreed with everything comey did. a lot of people had a problem with the way he handled the e-mail matter, but he was a good director. i have one friend who said he e-mailed him about a personnel matter and he got a response 12 hours later. i mean comey had his flaws but he was generally a well regarded fbi director, and he was considered a good manager. so the idea that the fbi was in disarray as a reason for him to be fired was just demonstrably false, chris. >> clint, he called the president's statements about what was going on at the fbi lies. and i think he said it with as