hillary clinton. that s all all of this began, this opposition research. so even though he s a former research operative, he runs and operates a private firm overseas. he runs and uses contacts of his that he had used previously when he was in the intelligence business. when he was working for british intelligence. so again, the providence of this begins with opposition research. the type that you have here in washington a lot. on every candidate. and so, that s one reason, and one reason why we spent a lot of time trying to verify some of the stuff we haven t been able to verify it. but the fact that this was included in the briefings last thursday and friday for the president and president-elect i think is very significant. let s talk about the russian response. you mentioned, evan, the russians responding with the statement. clearly there are those who are trying to create this hysteria