beep. now, the trump campaign's line on all those contacts with all those russians is those were totally innocuous things, there was nothing wrong with any of them. the reason they kept all of them secret for months is awful them slipped their mind. if there was nothing wrong, nothing nefarious about all those russian contacts, why didn't they tell the fbi about after the fbi gave them an explicit warning and said you need to call us when russians call you? but here's the other really interesting part about this scoop from nbc. if nbc is right that these warnings to the trump campaign about overtures from russians, if those overtures came right around time of trump's first classified intelligence briefing in mid august, we know that by then the fbi was already aware that the trump campaign had had lots of contacts with agents of the russian government. right? by august -- the fbi and the cia, by that point they'd already started their counterintelligence investigation into the unusual number and unusual nature of