compounds, other steps. and this was something that was done very quietly. it wasn't publicly announced. there were taskings to the state department to come up with proposals to relieve tensions with moscow. people in the state department began to hear about this. >> what's it tell you? you got the report, but what's it tell you? what does it tell a person watching? >> well, it tells you that they were trying to do something for -- >> was it a payoff for getting him elected? >> you can look at it two ways. i mean obviously trump didn't make any secret about the fact that he wanted to improve relations with russia. so purely as a policy move, one could presume -- >> first moment in office? >> yeah. you have to look at the context. right after the uproar about the election, the fact that the intelligence community concluded that the russians launched this influence campaign to meddle in our election, to tilt the results, to hack the democratic national committee, weaponize