in u.s. political history. you might remember the day before the trump inauguration "the new york times" had this amazing report, the new president that's about to be sworn in the very next day is caught up in a counterintelligence investigation into links between people associated with him and russia. and russia had just attacked our election to help him. "the counterintelligence investigation centers at least in part on the business dealings that some of the president-elect's past and present advisers have had with russia. paul manafort has done business in ukraine and russia. some of his contacts there were under surveillance by the nsa, the national security agency, for suspected links to russia's federal security service." i mean, that was the day before 9 inauguration. we knew the day before trump was sworn in that people close to the new president's campaign manager had been under surveillance by the nsa because they were believed to be russian spies. he got sworn in anyway the next day, but now it looks like one of those guys has finally been charged. and within a week many if not most of his advisers -- excuse