JEFF GREENFIELD:

It's hard to find but I would suggest a couple of glimmers. This week the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is controlled by the Republicans, said flatly yes, they agreed with the intelligence community that Russia did try to interfere with the election at the behest of President Putin, with the specific aim of hurting Hillary Clinton and helping Donald Trump. Now that does not mean that they found that there was collusion or that the Trump campaign knew about it, but that's an important fact that others have in the past tried to minimize or deny. Also it's interesting to me that that no one in the Trump campaign has denied the Times story that there was in fact a meeting involving an emissary from two Middle Eastern countries that were interested in helping Donald Trump. Now had in fact they done that, that would be illegal. And we don't know whether the Trump campaign accepted it. But there are certain elements of this story that are beginning to come into focus and say, OK that much we know. And as you say, within the in the middle of all these charges and counter-charges that's something to grasp onto.