for the atlantic. natasha bertrand is a staff writer for the atlantic. frank, starting with you, you wrote a great piece reflecting back two years ago. i remember that piece. everyone's denying it. what did you learn, how was the story advanced in the two years since you've first wrote about it? >> well, it's only margin ally a advanced. the lot of computer scientists were looking at this data in realtime and they said there's something raem funny here that this bank in moscow is communicating with the trump campaign. there was a whole series of suspicious, very circumstantial pieces of evidence and data that suggested that it was a covert communication channel. but it was just a question. and we've had this scandal, this big scandal and there's so many plot points in the scandal it's