and joining us now, julia ainslie, and then kirk bar delia, jonathan and mike barnicle are back withst of all, why was he asked to resign? what was the reasoning behind it? >> well, we understand you have to put it in the context right now that this is coming after two weeks of relentless criticism from conservative media like people on fox news who say dana's role in the russia investigation was grounds for his dismissal, saying he should not have, when he was acting attorney general for a very short time he should not have signed off on one of the mini renewals of the carter page fisa warrants, and there was leaked information that information that the investigators against michael flynn had was not exculpatory, and it was fine for them to withhold it, and we were talking about it for a while whether or not prosecutors should have released the material, and it's one of the reasons the justice department recently argued they should dismiss the charges against michael flynn, and dana said no, that was not exculpatory, and for that reason we know he became, at least in the eye of the