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Inexpedient, and he loves to be the center of aattention. so the notion that you should be constrained in some fashion is really alien to his very impetuous and rash character. and where he gets himself, i think, in big trouble is when he bumps up against those guard rails and then refuses to honor them. and so it will be really interesting to see what kind of stuff he tweets during or after comey's testimony if he does. if i were his lawyer, i would be on totally high alert right now, worrying that he was going to incriminate himself in some really dumb way, firing off tweets. >> in the last ...

Of justice. so the question then is what are the circumstances around it that give it a little bit of context that might be exculpatory or that might be inculpatory. and that's something that comey alone can fill in because he was in the room with the president. so his reporting about the details around that and his perhaps personal sense of whether he felt the president's intent was to interfere with that investigation will be, i think, pretty compelling stuff. >> let's take this spectrum. he can do it on human grounds. he could say this guy's got a family. he's never made any money in life. ...

Periodically and say, is this hurting me? >> oh, yeah. i mean, a couple of things. first of all, even before this stuff happened, the comey stuff and the wiretap tweet that he did in march, there was a real difficulty in staffing up. you know, my sources told me weeks and weeks ago, you know, remember sean spicer served as both communications director and press secretary before they hired dubke and one of the reasons was that he couldn't get signoff from the various committees internally. jared kushner and chief of staff priebus and other people, for people he wanted to hire. and the president...

As special counsel is we welcome this. this will absolve us because there's nothing there. you don't act in this fashion, trying to impied the investigation before it begins if you have nothing to hide. it's a bizarre, guilty-like behavior. the other thing i would say is we're sort of losing a little attention. there's so much focus and rightfully so on this but there's the possibility of real damage being done in the interim. and it's not just divulging secrets of intelligence that the israelis may have shared with you to the russians. but an underreported story that came out about trump deci...

Would demean a director of the fbi that way and say that to the russians. this may have been the same meeting where he was also disclosing classified information. in a certain way, you just can't make this stuff up but every day there seems to be another, oh, my gosh, kind of moment. and i got to tell you, it is very, very concerning to me. it's one of the reasons why the senate intelligence investigation, while i commend the fact at the appointment of mueller to lead the criminal and justice department investigation, our counterintelligence investigation, we've got to pick up the pace. it's m...