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Didn't happen is because a firewall existed between the department of justice and the white house and there were very, very limited possible connections across that firewall. i want to say there are two or three people on the white house side or maybe two or three people on the doj side and everybody else with respect to anything that could bear on criminal prosecution you weren't suppose to have a conversation with. so presidents usually don't waste their time just exchanging pleasant ris with folks. so there's not a whole lot of room to maneuver there. >> there's a theory that's been forth b...

All the prosecutable cases over time, this -- >> right. >> -- didn't fall anywhere near the basket of prosecutable cases. so of course it put him in the firing line. but imagine if jim comey had said hey we're not doing this and left it at that, we would have been talking about it a lot more. subsequent. >> well, right. it's just that you're right about what a prosecutor does and doesn't do. the catch is he wasn't acting as a prosecutor here. the head of the fbi is the investigative arm of it. the prosecutor is on the doj side. that's why they usually come forward and do what he did in that. b...