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He thought he was, you know, actth on the president's behalf or at the president's behalf or somehow had the message that he wasn't going to behold accountable, including for making false statements to the fbi for actually committing a crime. so that's just an indication of the fact that he didn't think he was going to get in trouble. >> hold your thought for a second. phil mudd, does it raise -- why would he lie about that? he's a former head of d.i.a., the defense intelligence agency. he knows how the u.s. intelligence community works. did someone instruct him to lie to the fbi, phil? >> no ...