what was happening and anticipated this ahead of time. i want to bring into the conversation nira tanden who advised the clinton campaign. attacking clinton s health and accusing her of corruption, and back with us is john flannery. great to have both of you join the conversation. thank you. nera, let me begin with you, your thoughts learning about the depth of the relationship when president trump and the national enquirer, and what he tried to do. well, during the campaign it really did seem like the national enquirer operated as a media arm of the trump campaign. obviously they had cover story after cover story after cover story of attacking hillary in really vicious terms. and they had ridiculous positive pieces about donald trump. what i find shocking about these revelations is, just think of how much the national enquirer hurt their own business sales in the moment by quashing the