their conference meeting saying we have gotten 250 calls in my office about this russia thing. i went home this weekend, and that's all i heard about. that's what it takes in order to bring it up to that level. until then if if they go home and people are, like, this isn't such a big deal, it's the media picking on trump, he is going to be fine, then they're not going to -- >> let me pull away from the democrats for a minute. there are legitimate questions that the president has not answered. a, did he know during the transition when he was president-elect trump, not president trump, that his national security advisor designee on the very day the obama administration was announcing sanctions was talking to the russian ambassador? when did he find out that in those conversations the issue of sanctions came up and the possibility apparently some conversation about potentially easing those sanctions? when did he know that? when the justice department three weeks ago gave a heads up to the white house, that if nuclear flynn is telling you he did not do this, everything -- we're getting to the point where we have to stop on this. we have to go. thanks for joining us today. my colleague wolf blitzer will be up after a quick break.