erovinkin was found dead in his car. no official cause of death has been cited by jane mayer continues, no evidence has emerged that oleg erovinkin was a source for christopher steele and mueller is believed to be investigating a different death that is possibly related to the dossier. a different death. jane mayer, you're making me crazy. joining us now is jane mayer from the new yorker magazine. jane, congratulations on this scoop. it is killing me. >> thank you so much. great to be with you. >> so i have a few different -- there is obviously a lot here, a lot of new material and a lot of stuff nobody else reported and i want to ask you about it. let me start with the reporting about the memo from steele after his fusion gps contract ended. it was produced in late november after the election in 2016 and it was based on a russian source suggesting that the kremlin had had a hand in casting the u.s. secretary of state for the trump administration. what else can you tell us about that reporting and it's credibility? >> well, you know, it's hard to evaluate. it's only based on one source. it's a shorter memo than most of the steele memos that created the dossier but one of the things, it mean, on its face it seems fantastical that something