steele himself did not give this as isikoff and i report in our book, give this information to the fbi really until the fall of 2016 months into the russia investigation. so none of it holds up. yet we hear this time and time again, and you get the breitbart crowd and daily caller and everybody else out there banking on this investigation by the inspector general, but also banking on yet another investigation that bill barr, who is a little bit more politically minded here, is also trying to mount in the same way, all to prove that somehow this russian investigation was cooked up from the beginning and distracting us from the key issue, russia attacked the u.s. election, and donald trump and his campaign helped it along, encouraged it and benefitted from it. >> all right, david corn, thank you very much. >> thank you, chris. what happened inside the courtroom today is next.