probe is deepening. he report that is in just the last few weeks, mueller s investigators questioning rnc staff about the party digital operation that worked with the trump cam tony to target voters in key states and seeking to determine if the joint effort was related to the activities of the russian trolls and bots. joining me now is noah shackman of the daily beast, tim o brien author of trump nation and msnbc contributor. noah, the saying used to be are you bought or not? the bots on the one hand can seem like a relatively trivial thing although they have certainly had impact in various countries and yet bob mueller doesn t look at this as trivial at all. why not? because there s a lot of evidence what happened digitally on twitter and facebook, one of the decisive moves in the campaign and who controlled the bots? bought the bots?