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, accept, or receive anything of value from a foreign national in connection with the U.S. election.

Ellen Weintraub, 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 Weintraub on the phone, though, it's a little bit of a different story. I just want to be really clear. I am not going to say whether any individual

has violated the law.

I'm perfectly happy to explain the law.

I think it's important to explain the law.

And I keep hoping somebody will hear me when I explain the law, and they will decide to comply with the law.

But I'm not going to say if anybody has violated the law.

It's funny because you are simultaneously an incredibly careful person, but really out there.

Yeah.

Well, I think there are things that I can say and things that I can't say.

One of the things she can't say can't even imply is that Donald Trump has done anything wrong

by openly asking Ukraine and China to interfere with the U.S. presidential election.

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