It gave no means of tracing this back to the source, but it had a lot of information in it about things that had been happening in trump tower. And it appeared to be from somebody inside the transition or inside trump tower who was concerned about what this person was seeing. And a lot of whats written or conveyed in this letter has sort of come become true over time. Its taken a while for a lot of this stuff to surface, including this detail about this discussion over a back channel or a private channel of communications with moscow. Again i just want to im trying to sort of bend over to read this as charitably as possible. So i mean is it possible that they were setting up lots of different back channels with lots of different foreign leaders . Well, we dont i mean i suppose its possible. Clearly they were in communication and meeting with a lot of leaders, a lot of foreign leaders. Most of them, as you point out,
were coming through the front door, not the back door. The behavior he
were coming through the front door, not the back door. the behavior here is part of what s interesting and newsworthy, i think, right? the way this was all handled. the context here, of course, is that these are meetings with russian officials just weeks after an election that russia had spent months in an unprecedented sort of campaign, attempting to upend or interfere with. so i mean it s really i mean on the one hand, you can argue sometimes that it s appropriate for incoming administrations to have contact with foreign governments and so forth. certainly. but this was extraordinary. yeah. greg miller, remarkable reporting. thank you for your time tonight. i really appreciate you hopping on the phone. absolutely. thank you. joining me now, sabrina siddiqui, political reporter for the guardian, and nicholas johnson, axious editor. i m almost out of words, sabrina. i don t know what to make of