the united states. and when you look at this investigation, one, russia colluded not colluded, russia meddled in the election, and then there were some contacts between either associates or members of the trump campaign with kremlin-backed russians, whether there was excuse me whether there was some sort of nefarious intent, whether there was some sort of obstruction of justice that percolated out of this, that is what mueller is trying to investigate. i guess i don t understand why you re equating birtherism, which, by the way, was really spearheaded by president trump, with this russia investigation that is spearheaded right now by robert mueller. let s talk about the contacts with russians. you don t get to pick the people with whom you re going to interact. you get to decide who comes into trump tower. let me finish.