we knew, a concerted effort by russia to make inroads into this election and this is a much more direct sort of aroach to approach somebody within the ranks of the trump campaign through what seems to be somebody with at least american ties, if not american themselves. it shows that basically it was not one offs but there were multiple avenues that were being pursued, which is something that you would frankly expect if russia was bent on trying to establish connections or trying to trump help the trump campaign or be involved and affect the elections somehow that the things wouldn t be accidental. this goes towards establishing a pattern of behavior that was happening from moscow, the question for whether this affects the probes of the trump team is going to depend a lot on what the response was to that in treaty and whether it was positive, whether it was negative, whether it went beyond just dearborn. and those are questions not yet