charges against special counsel robert mueller's investigators. they claim that his team improperly obtained a trove of e-mails from the transition headquarters before they got in to office. and some republicans are are speaking out harshly about this. mueller's team says, though, everything they did was proper, that they followed correct criminal procedures, and investigators did follow the law. >> all those guys need to be held accountable for what they did, but it needs to be exposed, because this goes to the heart of whether this whole investigation was legitimate from the start. we still don't know. the government won't admit whether they paid christopher steele for the dossier, how the russia thing started, whether they used it to surveil trump associates. eric: those are some of the questions to garrett tenney on the north lawn of the white house with the latest. >> reporter: at the center of this debate is who did these e-mails belong to, and we're talking about tens of thousands of e-mails that investigators now have from 13 top members of