mr. kahl, thank you very much for being here. i really appreciate your time. >> sure. >> first of all, i manuimagine must be unnerving. second of all, i'm sorry that i implied that maybe people don't know you all across america on a first name basis just seeing you on the street. >> it's fine. >> okay. >> it's a good thing. >> yes, exactly, and i hope you can retain that for as long as you want. can you tell me your overall reaction to this reporting, how plausible you see all this reporting and if you have any insight into why this might have happened to you. >> yeah, it's a great question. i think the story is still taking shape. i'll just tell you about a week ago, those reporters from the obser observer and "the guardian" reached out to me and they essentially said, look, in the process of us doing an investigation on cambridge analytica, we came across references that trump aides had hired a foreign intel ops firm from israel to dig up dirt on you and ben to try to discredit the iran deal. have you heard about this? to which