operation being run by a adversary, that the president should be keenly informed about. >> exactly. ken dilanian, i want you to jump in as part of the conversation. i know you've studied the indictment as closely as chuck has. and i want you to -- we have some time now. let's hone in on what some of the most god-smacking elements of it. to me it's the next that there were not one, not two, but three trump campaign officials who were in some sort of contact with the 13 indicted russian nationals. >> yeah, that's certainly one of them, nicolle --. i was struck by the elements of the operation we didn't know about. we knew about the social media manipulation. but we didn't realize, i don't think, that russian agents were actually infiltrating the united states, using false identities, talking to americans, gathering u.s. intelligence on the political system in furtherance of this covert operation.