and frank montoya a retired f.b.i. agent who oversaw national security investigations. he joins us via skype. gentlemen, thanks for making the time. michael mukasey, i want to ask you first, the president certainly has constitutional authority to direct the work of the justice depaiment. the crsm here, though, is that this specific directive wasn't about the law, it s about politics. did the president cross a line here? >> i don't know that he crossed a line. i think he was appropriately responded to by rod rosenstein td that is it was going to be referrthe inspector general who in the ordinary course would take a look at a tter like thi and see whether it had been done appropriately or inappropriately, and tt would be the end of it. >> nawaz: rosenstein responded, as you purchased, to the deputy a.g. by sayg this would be a matter the inspector general takes up. but in response to t president's first action to even demand such an investigation, do you feel that was completely within line? >> look, completely -- it's not something that's happened in my experience. wi th