that was. we have some push back from folks close to trump saying no, it was much less frequent. but clearly there is an open channel of communication here. as david suggested, it's not just between manafort or folks involved in this who are being looked at and trump, in fact we know trump texted mike flynn saying, stay strong. but it's also trump's team and the fbi with the report from cnn that right after trump asked comey to stand down on some of this stuff that priebus called the fbi, called both comey and his deputy director and asked them if they could come out and say something to refute reports about communication between trump's team and the russians during the campaign. so, all this is going to feed into the sort of handling of the investigation as opposed to the actual meat of the interactions between trump's team and russia. >> and, david, do we have any reporting, ken, you would know