assistant fbi director under james comey and his inaugural appearance on this show. former assistant u.s. attorney and associate independent counsel on white waur alon ashore along with new york times reporter ken roble. good crowd on a good news friday. greg, is it true there was an informant from the fbi planted inside the trump campaign? you can tell us? i don t know, hallie. the idea, the genesis of this idea is suspect to say the least. the fbi does use confidential informants all the time in a wide variety of types and cases. what s suspect and dubious about this particular allegation is that it s being done or was done for political purposes. that simply makes no sense to. he explain a confidential informant, a confidential source there is like a regular person with whom the fbi happens to have interactions with that s on the fbi payroll, fair?