to discuss that and more, "newshour weekend"'s jeff greenfield is here in the studio. eff, the conversations that have occurred since we had this revelation, how does that play with trump's base? >> reporter: it's as if it didn't matter and this is a constant. we have been talking about this it seems like almost on a weekly basis. the poll, anything bothersome about the russia-trump family connections what that tells you is that they have accepted trump's fundamental argument that if you see or read something about me negative about russia it's fake by definition. and i think what that means is as the press has moved further and further to say this is something here, what you see is some conservative columnists that say like charles krauthammer, but if you look at hannity and breitbart, among trump's real supporters they are not buying that anything happened here. >> sreenivasan: anything change here? >> in our political world i'd be kind of confident saying yeah, if the republicans in congress get really tough on trump, what's going on, this is a hostile foreign party

jeff greenfield. amazing orator read editor of the cardinal at the university of wisconsin. i'd never heard political debate. i was from a family there engaged in the community, but it was a civic duty. i had no sense of partisanship area i didn't know the difference between republicans and democrats, and almost failed in the exam on dickens because i didn't know the difference. that has changed. [laughter] >> here you were at this national convention, a thousand people, newspaper editors. then your husband got an invitation. what was that? karen: the following spring, one of the officers from an essay talk to him, and invited him to apply for the international student relations seminar, that was going to be held the coming summer in pennsylvania. the nsa office was in philadelphia. he applied and was accepted. we had a tiny baby by then. they gave us an extra dorm room. he is inis say baby, the audience tonight, i would like to recognize tim. we trundled off to have deferred -- have there for -- hatherford. i was in a paid position to produce material. area specialists the