it was. >> i'd like to ask you a process question here that i think there's a factual answer to it, and i think you can tell me. i don't think it's a secret. and i think for me it helps me understand how the lines of accountability should work here. if for example in 2020 some country, some adversary somewhere or some country that has interests in the united states and wants its way with us, does decide they're going to intervene in our election in a substantive way, they're going to use their intelligence capacity, they're going to provide assistance, they're going to tap one candidate or the other and try to help them or use them for their own aims -- if the intelligence community realizes that's happening, they figure that out through their own capacities, if the element in the u.s. election system that is getting that help, that has had those foreign contacts and that's accepting it is the president's campaign, who should the intelligence