expansive, russian network of interference in u.s. elections. eric: joins us vice president of spg, former senior executive clandestine service officer for the cia. dan, good to see you. first of all the independent counsel investigators apparently went over to london to meet with steele. no-go for the senate committee. apparently no one is saying who paid for this. does the senator have a point? i think the senator has a point. i also think from the perspective of mr. steele, this is an extremely sensitive and politically-charged investigation and mr. steele may have been concerned about sharing substantive details with our elected elect officials even from the intelligence committee. he may have been concerned about sharing details about his sources. eric: in other words you think he doesn t want to have any leaks? yeah, i think he would be concerned there would be the potential maybe some of those names of his sources, whom i