>> that was my follow-up question. this was the campaign at the time after this wanted to say that it was one big joke. they came out and said no, he was just joking, he didn't mean what he said. that question was a follow-up to the russia if you're listening. i was incredulous. are you serious about this, are you really asking a foreign government to interfere? and he doubled down. he doubled down on it in that moment. and then we know now that this is one of the things that raised a lot of red flags for fbi investigators. what was donald trump doing? why was he saying this? another line of questioning from the special councsel, did he tae the positions he was taking was he so friendly with russia because of his business interests? why would he do that? why would he feel it necessary to be so friendly to russia when a gop primary, when the gop voters and republican party which is what he was running on was so antagonistic towards russia? they didn't trust russia. it didn't make any sense. why would he go there. they're trying to figure that