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They set it up. i went down there last wednesday. they have an informal off-the-record discussion. some background stuff because as you know, this entire affair has totally destroyed my life in so many ways. >> what did they want to know? >> well, they wanted to know everything that you wanted to know. they wanted to know if i was -- so i said, hey, look -- >> they wanted to know about the role you played between roger stone and assange? >> yes. and here's what i said to them. you're wasting your time chasing rain bows on roger stone. stop giving him so much attention. he thrives off of this. ...

The lawyers and write it down. and he said, fine. i went down to have an informal off of the record discussion, and background stuff, because as you know, this entire affair has totally destroy ed my life in s many ways. >> what did they want to know? >> they wanted to know everything that you wanted to know. >> they wanted to know the role between oliver stone and asauj. >> --s a sa assange. >> and i said, you are wasting your time chasing roger stone, because you are chasing rainbows. i understand the story, and the eight e-mails leading into it, ms. halladay omitted. >> well, go into them. ...

Security adviser mike flynn, who was the subject of an fbi investigation led by a veteran counterespionage prosecutor even before he started lying to the fbi his second day on the job at the white house, so that did not work out with mike flynn. he was not the only one for whom things did not work out. for a while we had a nominee for labor secretary before it turned out his marriage had been the subject of an oprah winfrey episode back in the day about white-collar wife beaters. that one didn't work out. we got a head of the centers for disease control who turned out to be buying and trading ...

We got a head of the centers for the disease control who turned out to be buying and trading tobacco stocks while running the centres for disease control. >> that one didn't end up working out either. remember for a hot minute, we had an army secretary who quite recently punched a guy out at a high end horse auction. it was a very unusual reason for that one not working out. but there has been a lot of them. >> that just didn't work out. nobody asked about the background stuff. i mean, those ones, those are off the top of my head. but this has been a dominant pattern in the effort by president...

Required to disclose the donors at all. what could possibly go wrong? mr. gordon, thank you for being with us. appreciate you being here to talk about your work. >> rachel, thank you for having me. i have to say peter is the lead author but i was part of it and peter did great sleuthing for us. >> peter stone and greg gordon, got it. let me ask you first of all in explaining the importance of the reporting, did i get that right? >> perfect. perfectly. >> why is this coming to light? i have heard a lot of interesting background, a lot of interesting stuff about mr. torshin and that background s...