all right. that is live coverage of the liberty ball where we expect the president and the first lady. i just told you about that report in the "new york times" that there was an active investigation in the "new york times." they ran that last night before the president was inaugurate rated and i'm joined by matthew rosenberg, the reporter for the "new york times" who wrote that story. matthew, why -- how can i ask this. there have been scattered reports pointing in this direction. what do we now know about the nature of this investigation? >> we know they've got intercepted communications that are what clued them into this and exactly the nature of those communication s we're not entirely sure. we believe they were first intercepted on the russian end, so these were russians talking either to people directly involved who were the subject of the investigations or thirty parties talking about what they