and learn everything it could about donald trump. so while i didn't know that meeting took place at the time, i'm glad that marco and whoever else was aware of it at the time authorized it and went forward it. people shouldn't lose sight of the fact that as far back as february of this year, don, cnn repo reported and others have reported that the fbi and bob mueller's team has corroborated many key aspects of the dossier. so this will all rise and fall based on what bob mueller finds. and in my view, if any of this is corroborated, bob mueller's investigation turns out to be able to verify some of these details and it leads to shoes dropping in this investigation, then i think that's important for the public to know and to me, there's no shame in the fact that the combine sponsored this. >> do you think that this is a shi shiny object that they're trying to divert attention away from the russia investigation into possible collusion, or interfering in the election?