to mike flynn about this and portrayed mike flynn as an ally in this effort to find these damaging, he thought, e-mails about secretary clinton. >> to boels you are yolster you you point out it's consistent with information that's been examined by u.s. investigators probing russian interference in the elections. steve, just over to you. reading through this, yes, there are a lot of smokestack bus but there's no smoking gun. what's your assessment? >> well, this is another -- it's another data point, brooke, and it's very fortunate that we have both mr. mueller investigating as special prosecutor and also the fbi, which continues its counterintelligence work, because this could be a counterintelligence issue if if reporting is born out. yes, there are still a lot of questions, you know, with regard to what exactly was going on here, so this is maybe just the first we're seeing it, but my suspicion is that those who were trying to determine whether or not there was any cooperation or contact or collusion between