investigative techniques and especially when it comes in such a highly politicized environment, from the intelligence perspective and from the people who are trying to do their jobs to get these investigations done, you become concern tlad this information that you're providing that under normal circumstances would be perfectly normal and acceptable for intelligence community oversight to be asking about maybe used politically and that's the big concern is, is revealing those sources and methods and compromising potential future things that you can do with those sources and methods. >> steve, sam clovis one of the former trump campaign advisers. we know he's one of at least three people that this confidential source met with. here is how he described the meeting he had with that confidential source to an eye eye radio station. >> the meeting was very high level. it was like two faculty members sitting down talking about research. there was no indication or no