the white house later explained the presence of that russian photographer in the oval office by saying this, quote, they tricked us. we didn t know they were bringing a photographer. former national security council official official colin call said, quote, deadly decision was it a good idea to let a russian photographer and all their equipment into the oval office? former deputy director of the cia responded with this, no, no, it was not a good idea. but they did it anyway. for some reason. and that was one day after trump fired the fbi director who was leading the investigation into the trump-russia question. and that is unsubtle enough. but then we learned the very unusual origin of why that meeting happened.