Is there a tension there between those two things, between the special counsel on the one hand and then the attorney general saying no? is that something that congress would then sort of start mining and say, well, why did the attorney general do this when the special counsel couldn't reach an exoneration? >> let me add jeffrey toobin to weigh in on this specific point. you're reading as closely as anyone. >> i think that's a significant point gloria raises. the issue of why the obstruction of justice decision was made by the department of justice, bob barr and rod rosenstein, and not by rober...