you're the head of all the intelligence agencies and the fbi is one of those agencies, senator? just unbelievable. and he does actually call the fbi and ask them if they have looked into this -- this was a crazy conspiracy theory regarding anterum county in michigan, their voting machines being controlled out of europe. i mean totally nuts stuff. you expect it to be out there, but not to be something that the president of the united states is asking the top intelligence official in the u.s. government to act on. >> and we should note, again this comes across in your account and in others, obsessively. these are not passing idle fancies. >> no. >> in the days after the election, the obsession of everyone in the president's circle is on substantiating the lie that the election was stolen and essentially all resources are devoted towards that end. >> all resources, all means necessary. and he tries to motivate -- to activate the entire u.s.