thank you for being here. >> thompson: he knew sidney powell and her team through asog.re put into an affidavit. >> we have got to fight tooth and nail in federal court to expose this abject fraud and the conspiracy behind it, and get a... >> thompson: the lawsuits powell filed relied in part on merritt's affidavit, citing him as a former military intelligence official, though the army has said he never finished intelligence training. and so your research, it ends up on the president's desk. it ends up in lawsuits. it ends up as talking points all throughout the media. >> yeah. >> thompson: did you feel like you had any responsibility for that, that you had put out this idea that got widespread currency, that trump cited on january 6? >> i know, i think the problem was the, the people who took that information just put it out to courts or posted it publicly. >> thompson: do you mean that they didn't fact-check your work, or that they didn't just understand it? >> i don't think they even back- checked it, because no one ever asked for clarification on any of the informati