i'm going to bring in max and john now. max, give me your initial reaction to this news. what do you think? >> well, it's not terribly surprising, frankly, don, because for a long time i think we've known that devin nunes and some of his other republicans in the house like jordan and mark meadows, they're not just defenders of trump, they're really trump's accomplices and they're trying to do very much the same things as trump in propagating these crazy conspiracy theories and smearing the democrats. and nunes has a history going back to 2017, you know, a famous raid to the white house and claiming to uncover evidence of the obama administration was behind this political wiretapping of trump and all these other crazy conspiracies which we know is just not true. so it's hardly surprising to me to find out he might well be up to the same thing right now. but clearly if he is doing these things he needs to disclose them. and it's shocking that he's