and where they'ir investigation was going, what they were looking at. it's basically a flat, flat denial. i'll read what this former u.s. official told me. he said this didn't happen. it is made up. false. wrong. the official was careful to say that if we had to go down this road, it would have been difficult for us. they would have to go before a a judge, get a warrant to get permission to do this. it doesn't even sound like they were thinking about doing this. there was a huge investigation ongoing. it's still ongoing. into the russia's meddling into the election at no time did anyone present to the department of justice, why don't we get a wiretap of o donald trump's foep. so they are stressing, these are official, an official who's directly involved in the investigation, who's familiar with the investigation.