because he's a private citizen. on the other hand, he's a government official for getting, not getting a warrant. you can't have it both ways. clearly, anybody in the transition team is in a quasi public, quasi private position. there is no case law on this. the last thing you ever -- when you're a patient, you never want to hear the doctor say, that's an interesting symptom. and when you're a special prosecutor, you never want to hear a lawyer like me say, that presents an interesting novel issue. you have to avoid novel issues like that. >> they were not quasi told that their e-mails are government property. they were directly told by the gsa special counsel, the deputy counsel that these e-mails, you know, lived on government servers and were subject to monitoring and there would be no expectation of privacy. does that matter here? >> no, because, you know, you're told that routinely. i'm told -- i guess i'm on the harvard law school server and somewhere in fine print there must be a statement that harvard