outlets reporting what they re calling this a report. they re not even calling it facts. this morning we were talking in the news room, why are we talking about this, if you do not have a source, you can t just say some guy in uk is saying this, you have to have a source and anymore a source, if you can t do that, you don t report it. steve: it was opposition research, stuff gathered by republican against donald trump supposedly by the intelligence officer from the united kingdom and handedded over to hillary clinton. it s been swirling politico said we got this months ago but we didn t touch it because it s impossible to verify. here is the question. brian: cnn wept to town on the story. steve: cnn is not looking so good because they said donald trump received a two-page briefing about it at the conclusion on intel meeting on friday. ainsley: because this is we want you and president obama to know about this allegedly.