to january where the three of us, plus carl bernstein broke a story about this dossier full of salacious and unverified accusations against president trump put together by a former mi-6 operative stating that the russians claimed to have damaging information on him, because that's how the comey narrative begins and that seems to be the place where president trump and jim comey first start to go in opposite directions. >> well, that's right. i mean, it was -- and we knew because we had reported this, that it had to be an uncomfortable conversation already because this is the first time have a private sort of pull aside at this broad briefing of president-elect -- then president-elect trump where the fbi director had to say to him, by the way, we have this dossier that alleges the russians believe they have compromising personal and financial information, some of which we know is salacious, uncomfortable, as it is, and we know now based on comey's testimony that that's one of the first conversations where the president asked for assurance that he's not under