obtaining surreptitious money, millions of dollars worth of it, laundering that money and lying about it. so there s enormous liability facing them both, and gates is in a position to talk about a great deal. congressman, in the past week we ve seen a remarkable amount of activity from the special counsel s office. i ve probably got the math wrong, but by my best count i think we ve seen 89 felony charges brought against 17 people in the course of a week. and now we ve got the deputy trump campaign chairman pleading guilty f guilty. through the indictments wave seen through the past week or so aside from the legal jeopardy these folks may be facing, big picture do you feel like the special counsel s investigation has now told us more than we knew before about the central question, about the russian attack, about if they had help?