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Direct result of the meticulous work done by two reporters who spent months tracing price's public appearances, cultivating sources inside hhs even staking out dluls airport for a glimpse of price's private charter which they finally spotted in september. let's start -- i'll start with you. about how the story first started? how did you first get on this beat? >> sure. well, first of all, thanks for having me, chris. we first got this tip in may, may of 2017. i was on the phone with a source just about something unrelated, actually and then in passing this person mentioned that, you know, pric...

There hasn't been because as this has gone on there are some cases where some people have been fired and suspended in advance of reports. garrison keeler was fired preempt actively i believe -- >> that's all we have. >> ryan liza lost his job at the new yorker, nbc fired matt lauer in advance of the report on what laur had done. leonard was taken out of the building. i don't know that he's been fired without any public record of what the allegations against him are and when a company fires somebody or suspends them they're legally obligated by some measure to not reveal all the terms and that ...

Freelance writer right out of college, i have never seen a clearer example of sort of cause and effect reporting real world ramifications than really when you just start with those first two stories, this one strike of the ball. >> absolutely. i think that the journalism has been driving this in a way that has made it airtight at least up to a point, so in all the cases where there has been terrific reporting, in advance of whatever winds up happening to the accused we've gotten this incredibly detailed, incredibly well checked in all the cases we know about accurate vision of what has unfolde...

That borne out for instance, david ignatius column, we now know michael flynn actually pleaded to that, what do we know and not know right now? how would you characterize what we know about this story at this point? >> i think we know a sliver of this story at this point, you know. as we were talking about earlier, mueller runs a really tight ship, there's nothing suggest that's leaks are coming out of his operation and if we need any evidence that we know so little you can point to the george papadopoulos -- >> that's exactly the example i used because no one knew who the heck the dude was. >...

And that's a concern i think a year ago some of us didn't really have in the way we do now. >> that seems like an active thing that you have to look out for in reporting the story at this point. there is an obvious desire to discredit everything having to do with the investigation and, you know, one of the things that is happened is the press has in some ways been out ahead of actual investigators. the best example of this, david, the best example of this is that trump tower meeting. when that trump tower meeting, the e-mails about that are disclosed which are the biggest breaks in the case, t...