Brendan

How you doing?

Good.

So I am thinking more on the lines of the future here with Connor Griffin.

What about him at third base?

Just looking at the past with Machado and Baltimore and Gunnar Henderson.

And would you keep Triolo or whoever at shortstop?

Yeah, it'd be Triolo and Gonzalez based on what you need defensively and offensively.

Well, it's a great question, and I'm glad that James Comey is striking a tone of defiance.

I think that's exactly right.

I completely understand why a person would feel afraid in this moment, no matter who you are.

But just as there are reasons for fear, I think that there are reasons for defiance and even reasons for hope.

One of the things that I find encouraging here is that

this administration wasn't able to secure an indictment on its first proposed charge, which suggests that even only seeing the government's evidence, that these grand jurors rejected them.

So, you know, the fact that they've got an incredibly weak case, I think, is a reason for hope.

I think the other reason for hope is that this is a terrifically incompetent administration generally, and it seems like an incompetent leadership that's coming into the Eastern District of Virginia.

and pursuing it very aggressively, I don't think that they're necessarily going to pursue them particularly well.

Yeah, I think so.

People have to remember what is the substance of these lies?

What were they for?

These news stories that were put out there that were leaked to the press, the thrust of them was that Donald Trump was under the throes of a foreign government.