my colleague michael gold and i were assigned to write what we thought would be a quick piece on this new congressman from long island who is drawing a lot of attention. he flipped what had been a blue district red but he was also sort of this new model of perhaps what the gop could be in the future. he s only 34 years old, he s latino and he s gay. which was all very, very interesting. and so as we started to look into him, he looked at his bio and we looked at all sorts of dink things. the pet charity that you menged is one of the things that caught me eye because i ve didn t some reporting into some nonprofits in the past and so one of fis things i did was look for some of the filings because he was very specific about being ty 501-c 3 and we weren t able to find that with the irs. we had some bigger questions. and i want to read and i know you ve seen this statement, but i do want to read what an attorney for santos has told cnn in a statement.