the president demanded that i be fired. and the attorney general, jeff sessions, probably concerned about getting fired himself, went along with it. and the inspector general, michael horowitz, delivered a report that was half-baked, that was rushed, truncated, a report that ignored exculpatory evidence. and that was a part of this operation. they delivered that to the fbi and the fbi initially said, oh, no, there's not possibly enough time to get this done before he retires. and then lo and behold, they got it done before i retired. so the president applied the pressure and the system bent. and i think that's such an incredibly damning result. and that's -- you know, that's how the former administration worked. but when you know you're right, when the results were wrong from the very beginning, i've said