jennifer ruben joins me to talk about her perspective. old friend, good to see you. thank you for being with us. i think this becomes a really, really important discussion and president of the united states and that we need to move on with things gnnot done for the last four years. every book available some believe should be thrown at him and you're walking a line down the middle. why? >> the president elect pointed out one issue, which is that he doesn't want to be completely involved. doesn't want to keep giving donald trump options. he has a new presidency to get after and there is another compelling reason, which is as you read from my piece, we don't want to get into a pattern of the cycle of recrimination, of one incoumbent president prosecuting the next one. there is a danger there and as i said in the piece, i think it's appropriate to go back to come up with a complete record of what happened and in particular to see if other people were involved but with regard to actions during his presidency, my preference, i think, would be not to prosecute those. now i