tonight's revelations is to try to turn it into some sort of smoking gun, if you will. that theory, though, that the dossier is what instigated the original investigation was blown up by your paper's investigative unit, the reporters mark ma zetty was on our show earlier tonight, and another one of your colleagues. we now know that the original investigation into potential ties between donald trump's campaign and russia was from low-level deutsche papadopoulos, right, peter baker? >> that's right. the other writer 0 than piece is sharon. >> thank you. >> who was in moscow with me back in the early era of the putin tenure so she spent a lot of time covering russia as well. and the story found that the investigation got underway because george pop apadopoulos bragging at a drinking session with a foreign diplomat on the