were they monitored or we won t know that until we actually receive all of the documentation. what s going on here? is this a retraction on the chairman s part? you saw it there, that was a back track. i mean, he threw a stink bomb into the investigation of trump/russia. on his own he held a news conference, saying he had seen that trump and his aides were monitored in surveillance reports. two days later he said, well, i can t say that they were monitored. this may have been foreigners talking to foreigners overheard by the nsa or evesdropped on by the nsa about trump and his aides. which happens all the time. it s routine. there are rules about blacking out the identities of americans when they appear in intelligence reports.