joining us now is "washington post" reporter and msnbc contributor david fahrenthold. mr. ahrenthold, it's really nice to see you. thanks very much for joining us. >> thanks for having me on. >> so when a new grand jury was convened in the new york d.a.'s investigation of these matters, i think that gave a lot of people sort of a vague sense that there might be a new line of inquiry, there might be a new potential case here. can you give us any sense from your reporting about how far along that investigation is? >> well, as any investigation, we're a little blind. but what we can see is they have gone very, very deep. as you said, literally into some of these properties where they think trump was distorting the value of the property, giving a really high valuation to somebody and a really low valuation. you know, these things are always a little bit subjective, but i think what the a.g. and the d.a. are trying to do is to figure out, okay, what facts can we establish? what's not subjective about this? so in this case that means learning like what are the rock layers under t