election. perhaps interfering in the election. you have the mother jones headline we talked to david corn about where a veteran spy has given the fbi information alleging a russian operation to cultivate to essentially turn donald trump. why -- are there alarms going off inside the u.s. intelligence community about this? the way it's happening overseas? >> yes. i'm glad the reporting caught up. the united states community has serious concerns. you might remember about two months ago there was a report where one of trump's surrogates was found and recorded by a foreign intelligence to u.s. intelligence he was promising that the trump administration would raise sanctions on putin. these the sort of things because of our laws we can't go out and collect that intelligence. our allies, as kurt said clearly, our allies can listen to the cell phones and do the