we contacted scott balber to ask if there was a connection between his previous representation of mr. trump and the fact that he's now representing the russians behind the russian government offering dirt on hillary clinton during the election. mr. balber responded to us tonight promptly, which was very nice of him. his response was this, "nice try, but absolutely no connection whatsoever." there is no such thing of a normal investigation of a tie to a hostile foreign government that interfered with the russian government. but when somebody who used to turn up in the investigation representing the russian side, that seems like something that requires more than nice try as an explanation. if the president had less hilarious legal representation in the first place, we could probably expect an explanation like that but in this world that we live in, we have to figure it out ourselves. we do our best. top democratic on the intelligence committee joins us, coming up. stay with us. hi, i'm the internet! you know what's difficult? armless bowling. ahhhhhhhh! you know what's easy? building yo