Hey everyone, quick programming note here at the top.

This episode of What Next aired back in early October.

We're rerunning it because we had a live show in Brooklyn last night.

We are still recovering.

But we're going to be back in your feed tomorrow afternoon

with our weekly impeachment roundup.

All right, here's the show.

The chair of the Federal Elections Commission, the FEC.

She's got this tweet pinned to the top of her Twitter timeline.

It's the kind of statement you don't often read on government letterhead.

It's stripped of formality and weasel words.

It starts, let me make something 100% clear to the American public.

Then it continues, it is illegal for any person to solicit,

except or receive anything of value from a foreign national

in connection with the US election.

Ellen Weinthraub, the FEC commissioner,

who wrote this statement.

She's taken to tweeting it and retweeting it,

attaching one line editorials whenever she does.

One reads, I would not have thought I needed to say this.

Another says, is this thing on?

When you get Ellen Weinthraub on the phone though,

...