joining me now are john carreyrou. i am pleased to have both at this table. een 13 months of reporting in the journal, but longer than that actually, looking into theranos. john, when did you first get an indication that something might be amiss? >> there was a "new yorker" piece in december of 2014, a long profile of elizabeth holmes. that piece both put on my radar. she had gotten a fair amount of press, but i had not paid much attention until i saw that story. in addition to putting her on my radar, just in general, they are decoupled passages that i thought were strange. i had done investigative reporting in health care for the last decade. having a fair amount of experience, there were some passages that seemed off to me. i probably would not have done anything with that, but a couple of weeks later i got a tip. host: which passages? >> they were a couple of skeptical passages in the piece about the regulatory sort of no man's land, that this company was sort of charting, its path. then, there was also a paragraph in which the writer asked her how the tec