measures." you had interviews with john mccain, podesta. how did you get involved in this f film? >> i think what we me and my partner found was that in early spring of 2015 we were absorbed in the russia story but we didn't think it was getting a lot of main stream play, and even if it did it sort of washed over people. and we thought one of it reasons of that is it's in pieces and so long you didn't get the full context of it. and we didn't think people could get that without something like a film or documentary to take you through the history. >> that's really smart. even when you're talking about the trials that are going on and the russian connections it's a lot. it can be confusing especially to the public when you're trying to synthesize in just a couple of minutes. you said the connection between donald trump and vladimir putin, decades old.