but i think that does get you back to this point that steve schmidt was raising which is it's not compelling in the real world. it's not factual and substantive in the real world. but that doesn't mean it won't achieve its purpose in the right wing conservative world. in donald trump's mind does this give him the political space to move on rod rosenstein, to move on the underlying investigation as he seems to want to do. >> all right. so let me give you another piece of this, ken dilanian. it also, the memo released today declassified by the president over the objections of the director of the fbi who had grave concerns, also alleges that information to the court did not reveal that the fusion gps generated dossier was financed by the dnc and the clinton campaign. now, the truth is that the original fusion gps contract was under big republican donor paul singer, and it was i think an intermediary, a conservative website, the free beacon. i understand christopher steele wasn't involved until the fusion gps contract had been taken over by the clinton campaign.