. >> joining us now is brandon van grack, a former national security official at the doj and former prosecutor on the robert mueller counsel team. brandon, thank you for being here, what a time to talk about what is going on, specifically this reporting. i wonder after you read it, what stood out to you? did the relationship between the prosecutors and the fbi agents unlike the experience that you have had, or was it different? >> well, what stuff got the most is that there were individuals, senior officials, who were part of this deliberation, that chose to be disinformation, right at the time that the department of and fbi are likely making a charging decision. debate, deliberation, disagreement, as stephen was mentioning is common, does occur. but when you have a leak like this, it undermines the integrity of the investigation, and most importantly, how do those individuals, those same individuals go into a room and have an honest and candid discussion about charges, knowing that there are people who, if they -- if the decision goes against them, there is disagreement, that they may or thei