carolyn ryan, let me start with you. the "new york times" story today does describe a canadian-- a wealthy canadian businessman. he's the chairman of this company that owns significant uranium mining interests in the united states. he also happens to be making huge-- large donations to the foundations. and then it turns to the move by the russian atoo atomic energy to buy interest in that country. fill us in there. >> the nub, essentially, the ethical issue here is that this panel, u.s. government panel was overseeing and had to sign off on this deal, and the donations that you speak of were not disclosed by the clintons as they agreed to do as part of the agreement that they set up with the obama administration when mrs. clinton became secretary of state. so it was multi-million-dollar contributions that were not disclosed, leading up to this key vote on whether this deal could go through. >> woodruff: and what is the clinton campaign-- what is the clinton foundation saying? we do have one statement that i guess they pu