>> let me assure you, the fbi doesn't operate by presidential tweet or presidential press conference announcing a candidate trade deal. they need a directive from the white house, and they need something in writing. and, joy, right now we are not seeing evidence that that's happened. there are three ways we can tell that something's happening that is different. first, most reliably, the fbi would come out and confirm, we've received new instructions. that's unlikely to happen. the fbi never wants to get in the middle or become the story in a background investigation. secondly, we see evidence that new people, new people we didn't think would be interview ready having their doors knocked on by fbi agents. and we're not really seeing that and then lastly, we would see evidence of people coming forward saying i was interviewed, and we wouldn't think they would have been interviewed. they weren't on the original list. none of those three things has happened tonight yet, joy. >> you kind of hit on the point i wanted to make with you, because i think the concern for