really something that the special counsel is going to win on, but for sure they have already noticed this and they want to make sure that they're going to be ready to fight the special counsel if this ends up being part of the report that robert mueller produces. >> if that were not enough, another major development that's been unfolding. evan, it was revealed that the president's campaign chairman, as we all know, paul manafort, that he released confidential, internal trump campaign polling data to a russian who was well placed with the russian military unit, gru, according to u.s. officials and that potentially that could have been used to help the russians, the gru, go ahead and engage in the hack e-mails of the clinton campaign. cnn now has exclusive reporting. you've been working on this, as we know, that the trump campaign's chief pollster was