in progress and decided he needed to report it to the fbi. can you, peter baker, speak to how you might guess from covering this president, from covering this white house how you might guess the president is going to turn this into some sort of deep-state conspiracy when it's perfectly clear from this piece that when christopher steele, a former british intelligence officer thought there was something that required government intervention, government action, he did exactly what you're supposed to do? >> yeah. what you'll hear from president trump's defenders at the very least if not from the president himself is that this dossier was used somehow to get a warrant to investigate and spy on even the trump campaign last year. that was something you heard at some of these congressional hearings a few weeks back. as the republicans try to turn the tables on -- on this investigation to find another