outlets reporting what they're calling this a report. they're not even calling it facts. this morning we were talking in the news room, why are we talking about this, if you do not have a source, you can't just say some guy in uk is saying this, you have to have a source and anymore a source, if you can't do that, you don't report it. steve: it was opposition research, stuff gathered by republican against donald trump supposedly by the intelligence officer from the united kingdom and handedded over to hillary clinton. it's been swirling politico said we got this months ago but we didn't touch it because it's impossible to verify. here is the question. brian: cnn wept to town on the story. steve: cnn is not looking so good because they said donald trump received a two-page briefing about it at the conclusion on intel meeting on friday. ainsley: because this is -- we want you and president obama to know about this allegedly.