ranking member, dianne feinstein and basically said to her eye want to see this letter and i think is trying to figure out how exactly it got leaked, which seems to be a bit of a mystery how her name ended up in the public sphere. no one's pointed the finger. >> it ended up in the public sphere because she came to "the washington post" very >> shannon: prior to that i mean. >> the incident was in the public sphere, but it was only after she, according to our reporting, really agonized over much of the summer as to whether she would actually put her name to this allegation. and can i just say, i have dealt with stories like this, some of which i've written about at some of which i haven't written about, and that is very typical, very often as a journalist, and i assume the same thing happens in this kind of setting, somebody will come to you and they will say something happened, i would like to talk to you confidentially about it. this is not an unusual kind of