investigation that involves joe biden and his son and this military assistance? >> well, what it certainly does between what rudy giuliani said on cnn last night and what the president has been tweeting this morning, it certainly has given all kinds of encouragement and material to work with to people who do see the connection or do speculate about the kind of connection that you were just describing. if there was going to be an effort by the administration as it seems there has been over the last couple of weeks to just stonewall any further investigation or conversation about this, you know, there are giant gaping holes in that strategy now. it's really hard to see how we don't ultimately end up getting much more of the story than we have this morning. and if what mayor giuliani was trying to do was prespin what people find out later and we don't know for sure that he was being that strategic, but if that's what he was trying to do, it's a highly questionable strategy. >> francesca, building on that a bit, the white house could -- let's not forget -- easily clear