as the unwitnessing victims of kremlin investigation. let's bring in our leadoff panel chief correspondent for "the new york times" peter baker. white house correspondent for the washington post phil ruck ker, "wall street journal" eli stokels and jeremy bash also doing double duty he's former chief of staff to both the director of the cia and the secretary of defense. and jeremy i'm going to start with you because i feel like you and i have had conversations about the dossier, about what it is and isn't. for many, many months now and now we know that what it isn't was the match that ignited an investigation by the u.s. government into potential ties between donald trump's orbit and russians. >> yeah. i think importantly nicole from the individuals who sponsored the dossier's research tonight we learned that the dossier merely corroborated information that the fbi already had.