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You know, on the plus side, wray is coming in and he can really just focus on the fbi. in terms of the russia investigation, most of it is going to fall to the mueller team. so he's got an opportunity to really sort of focus on his troops. really sort of build and restore some confidence in the agency about where the direction is going to be and how it moves forward. on the minus, he's now the third fbi director we are going to be talking about almost simultaneously. you've got mueller. comey is still going to come back into play in this investigation. and now you've got wray. so he's crowded ...

Time and, you know, they're -- obviously there's politics involved in a lot of this, but these guys have been doing this work for quite a while and it doesn't help, of course, that the trump administration came in with a lot of disparaging remarks about the intelligence community and those people who are taking a look at the counterintelligence side of this. these folks have served under both administrations and professionals and they will do their jobs and at the end of the day we will get to the bottom of this. it's going to take a lot of time. >> david, is this potentially the consequence o...

Smarter legal minds, i think, are going to be battling it out. >> you're plenty smart, but carrie is a legal mind. i want to bring in carrie on this. i heard lot yesterday that the legal landscape for jeff sessions became more bleak after comey's testimony yesterday because comey seemed very aware of whatever it was that precipitated the recusal from the russia investigation. what's your take? >> well, it was clear that former director comey when he testified yesterday, he indicated that there's more involved with respect to attorney general sessions and the -- and the ongoing russia investiga...

Allegation by elijah cummings that they have evidence he lied to the people interviewing him when he was getting a security clearance review. how big a deal is that? >> it's a big deal for two reasons. the first one is the pragmatic one. it's potentially a crime. if he did this knowingly and there was an intent to sort of cover something up here. the second one is, on the counterintelligence side. when someone purposefully misleads something in regards to an sf-86, this form that is a security back ground questionnaire, if you have a counterintelligence officer, it raises a red flag, besides f...

>> the first question they're probably looking at is how far back do we have to go. it's not right to think this started in 2017. the russian involvement started in 2017. >> 2016. >> the fbi is trying to think, how far back do we have to go? there's this interesting case with this russian bank and jared kushner n his failure to disclose that connection on his security forms. it's a wide net and the fbi is probably going to go back a lot farther than 2017. >> they are now looking at financial crimes. your point is the portfolio of what investigators can look at is, you think that the signals ar...