we know of the seedy surveillance of the government, author of the best seller deep state target, former trump campaign aide, george papadopoulos.ve thank you, george, good to see you. t thanks for having me. sean: you had been hinting and then kind of saying it, you were slow in its s release. you actually told people, and they have transcripts and tapes. apparently, you were being taped. did you know you were being taped? w no, well, so i was i had very suspicious meetings. dating from march of 2016 all through, let s say, the transition of the trump campaign.ug so when i was meeting with a lot of these officials, especially from australia and the u.k., i felt that they were spying on me. i wasn t sure if they were recording my conversations, but some of their actions were so disturbing that i ended up actually reporting them to the fbi, including this australiani diplomat. alexander downer.