campaign was in cahoots with the justice department as doj was investigating hillary clinton's private e-mail server. this e-mail is purportedly from clinton campaign spokesman brian fallon to clinton staffers. let me quote brian here. "doj folks inform me there is a status hearing in this case this morning so we could have a window into the judge's thinking about this proposed production schedule as quickly as today." so let's first go to jim sciutto, our chief national security correspondent, on this. first context. can you give me the context of the e-mail? we know fallon is a former doj employee. he was citing public information about a case involving a foia -- freedom of information request. was this out of bounds? >> listen, just throw the e-mail up on the screen again. first of all, as you say, the fact that a status hearing is coming up would be public information. second of all, to get a window into the judge's thinking. that's not because they're going out for drinks with the judge, it's because there's a status