and with all of those connections going back and forth between the campaign and wikileaks and guccifer, obviously areas of intense investigation by our committee. >> as you point out, congressman, julian assange personally confirmed the report. he says he rejected the offer, though, from cambridge analytica. what does that tell you? >> well, you know, again, assange is not someone you can trust, so, you know, it may or may not be significant. he confirms the contact. we may or may not be able to believe what else he has to say on this score, but it certainly does show a willingness now of at least a third party to reach out to those that are in possession of thee stolen e-mails, those that are directly affiliated with russian intelligence or working indirectly with russian intelligence, and that shows certainly a willingness by multiple parties in the campaign similar to the trump tower meeting where they expressed a willingness in receiving dirt about hillary clinton. so on the trump campaign side, lots of overtures to the russians and russian intermediaries as well as wikileaks. and