would that your lives would be transformed to the degree th they have? i mean, we knew that would happen when once the dossier was published by buzzfeed. yeah. january of 2017. but i don t know if we were as former journalists we were that well prepared for the scale and the vinality of the lies being told on the right about us. i went to college in washington. i basically spoke most of my profession fall life in washington covering scandals so there was some ability to anticipate what might happen to us in terms of investigations and legal costs and oall of tha, but this is so off the charts of anything i ve ever seen, you know, in my career in washington there the amount of concerted effort to destroy us through lawsuits, congressional investigations, right-wing media attacks, i mean, it s been wild. we have great company now, former ambassadors, former fbi directors, and a number of others, right? yeah. anyone who criticizes this president is attacked