and especially as they looked to try and tie this to secretary of state hillary clinton, they're really looking carefully at suggestions that top floor management at the state department knew about some of what was going on and actually played a role in watering it down. and the first reaction here on capitol hill was to say look, the state department hasn't had an official inspector general in years for all of hillary clinton's tenure and they suggest that these state department investigators who prepared this report were intimidated by political appointees. >> and that's -- so in other words, people have told nbc or have told anybody in the news business that they were intimidated from telling the full story here about these abuses in the department? >> i talked to staffers on capitol hill who are familiar with the investigation who say that they've had state department employees or rather people who are familiar with what's gone on at the state department come to them and