in a manner that gives the most transparency possible. >> i want to ask you one last question, harry lippman. it seems like we have been here before where the justice department takes on a high profile, high stakes investigation and i'm thinking of the hillary clinton email investigation and at the end there is such an appetite for the underlying investigation that even though the result is to not recommend any criminal charges, comey comes out and tells the story about what they found and describes the conduct. they seem to be failing even that uncelebrated standard. at least there there was a decision that was communicated to the public defended by the fbi director and the underlying material was made available almost immediately. not immediately, but was made available in short order. they seem to be coming up well short of a standard that news reports suggest haunted them an hung over them as they deliberated this nonconclusion on obstruction from mueller. >> maybe. but look, let's wait a week. the thing about obstruction which is what matters most is that mueller may have investigated i