russia connection. maria: yeah. we have a timeline of you, and you acted as a government informant from 2008-2013, but then you were invited to a seminar by stefan halper in 2016, the same individual who ran into other people in the trump campaign and invited you and others to conferences. what do you think happened? >> you know, i just, it was like any other moment where you're in a foreign policy setting you're with scholars, we're having normal conversations. maria: was this conversations you had with informants that you think were not given to the fisa court? what are we going to learn tomorrow in the i.g. report? >> i think we'll learn part of the story tomorrow. what i've learned from some of the leakers and one of the papers of record, a top reporter there said that, you know, there's a lot of exculpatory information which is remaining classified, and there's been internal battles. so we'll have to see how that all plays out --