I have a deep and lasting regret that we were
involved at all.
I felt that in the exact moment I was briefed
on what had happened with the investigation on the 27th
of October.
It's interesting now to look back and see as we
were wrestling with this nightmare,
trying to figure out which of our options was the
least bad.
All of this was going on on the Trump side
trying to suppress information.
And so it's obviously I knew nothing about it didn't.
And and I tried not to think about the political
and making that decision.
But it's a strange overlap of events.
Can I can I ask you about this,
this desire to not think about the political because this
particular Department of Justice.
Especially in its early days,
seemed very concerned about appearing too political in the aftermath
of January 6.
There are a lot of folks on both sides of
the aisle that say Merrick Garland and the DOJ were
too concerned about the appearance of going after Trump after
January 6th. They started the January 6th investigation too slow.
They started from the bottom up when they should have
started from the top down.
Do you have an opinion on that?
Yeah. I mean, as someone who's caught a lot of
rocks,
I'm reluctant to throw any.
But I do think they over learn some of the
lessons from.
My own experience and from the Trump administration and they
were too slow and it's cost us because we finally
got a special counsel very late in the game.
And we're stuck the way we are.
And so yeah, it it I I would have hoped
they would have moved faster,
but again, given when they came into office what they
were trying to accomplish,
I get why they did it,
but I still think it was a mistake.