our office was not previously aware of these allegations. the bottom line remains that this story was a desperate measure bi-partisan republicans who slung mud by junior staffers to score points in the waning days of her campaign. jenna: you were speaking with pete h shall ookstra this morning. what did he said. reporter: he said in his experience executive agencies bend over backwards to keep key house members informed when things like this happen. harry reid had plenty of access to that information. he thinks it s very likely something like this would have fallen into that category. now he is looking for answers. two very simple questions. was the senate informed, and if they were informed, what happened to the information? and if they weren t informed why were they not informed, because