joining us now from washington, is eric liplou, of the "new york times," and karen tumilitiy of the "" thank you both for joining us here. karen, let me start with you. what's next on the sessions front? >> well, i think that what is next is is what has been going on all along, which is the sort of drip, drip of more and more reports of contacts of people in the president's circle with the russians, or with russian officials. the trump team seems to have not sort of gotten its arms around what the facts are here, you know, who had contacts, how many, and if they don't, this appears like it could be headed toward some sort of outside, even a, you know, select-- either a select committee or some kind of outside investigation. there is talk on the hill-- i don't know how far that would get-- about the need for some kind of special prosecutor in this. but unless the white house, unless the the president can get ahead of all of these revelations, you know, it is going to-- it is going to turn into something bigger. >> glor: eric, let's talk about this circle of russian contact. karen menti