russia or the expulsion of diplomats. chris: all right, second question, can you flatly denies because this continues to be out there that there were any contacts at any point during the campaign between mr. trump's associates and russian operatives including cut-outs as we know about the hacking of the democrats during the election? >> this -- some of this derives from this opposition research memo, i guess, chris, that made its way around the internet. there was about 24 hours where michael cohen who had worked in the trump organization for many years was accused of having a meeting in prague and some news organization did a little checking and found out that it was a different michael cohen and michael himself had not been to prague. chris: i do want to ask you the question. i understand that. there's been other talk and, in fact, if i may, senators specifically asked fbi director comey about that and he refused to answer. i'm asking you a direct