congressional committees are going. we don t have as much insight into where mueller is going except we know within the last week his request to the west wing for documents and interviews. the congressional committee s investigations are counterintelligence investigations which dovetails with what kind of meetings were happening, back channels were happening, where bob mueller seems to be digging more on the financials, perhaps civil/criminal stuff. i was struck by the piece. on the one hand, there is some exculpatory information there, paul manafort saying no, but on the other hand it s real affirmation russia said of the trump campaign, a vehicle for disruption and continues to press them for meet which is happened outside of these channels but it s just a mixed bag little bit. what we can see, carol, from your reporting is just how persistent this was, that russia was always, as sam was saying, russia was always player at the table, trying to get to the table. it does seem lik