were doing and of course, mark elias, who is one of the partners at the perkins law firm, was sitting with john podesta when johnodesta was asked about these payments. and he claimed not to know anything about fusion. so mark elias is in the room when that is being asked. obviously he is is a lawyer in the room but there is more questions about the democrats and about the democrat's intentions. liz: that is not just any lawyer. mark elias worked for the dnc as a counsel. he worked for the hillary campaign as a lawyer. he worked for john kerry and al franken. he is known in democrat circles, right. >> he is well, highly regarded across all party platforms and been used by everyone. and so it's a little surprising he seems to be mixed up in this. we will learn in the coming days exactly what the perkins law firm was doing, and maybe not in the coming days. this may take congressional investigations, unless there seems to be any criminality. and if there is, then of course the department of justice or mueller could do it. liz: hang on a second. we don't know, again, we don't know whether this file was used to do su