>> well, first it was a very excelling reinforcement, validation of the intelligence community assessment that we published and briefed president-elect trump on in january of '17. and it followed exactly the themes we outlined in that and what the russian objectives were. first to sew doubt, discord, undermine our system and the faith and trust of the american people in our political system. secondly, do whatever they could to hurt hillary clinton. and thirdly, help donald trump. of course, that as we saw it kind of evolved over time. so what you see in the indictment in my view is a validation that as you point out, of course, we had -- that was an intelligence assessment. we had very high confidence in our findings. this actually is even a higher evden evidentiary bar. >> because it's legal