so it was one of the first sort of official probes into phil bryant's involvement. the last two to three years, one of the biggest questions has been what was his role. because he oversaw the welfare department during the time that this scandal occurred. and he's been up to this point pretty curiously absent from any criminal charges, officials seem to be sort of purposefully excluding him from their probes. but in april, we uncovered text messages between phil bryant and brett favre that shows the governor promising to help favre with a pharmaceutical venture he was investing in. on several occasions favre suggested giving stock to the governor in exchange for his help. this is serious business, right. the company ended up receiving $2 million in stolen welfare funds. and then two days after bryant left office back in 2020, just before the arrests and the scandal, he agreed by text message to accept stock in the company but the arrests and the scandal ended up derailing this arrangement. but he also knew about the volleyball project. he admitted to us in an april i