pry manage the personal lives to anyone associated with donald trump send aing them so open this the prison -- sending some of them to prison. what justifies the existence of the investigation? few ask but kim strassel does. and joins us tonight. what is the pretext for continuing this at this stage? >> it is hard to know. we were supposed to talk about the trump-russia collusion. so far in all the time that the special counsel has gone away he has not found any evidence of that. now his mandate did say any related crimes so i guess if you were going to give them the rationale, they could say if you found evidence of wrongdoing he has an obligation to follow those leads as well. one of the frustrations out there among a lot of people watching this is that you now have a very one-sided probe where all the people who were accused of things, and were not necessarily found guilty of any of those accusations are still under the spotlight. whereas, those who made the accusations, potentially has done some criminal activity of