and we're back with the breaking news in our politics lead. president trump's lawyer is responding to a new wall street journal report that special council robert mueller has impanelled a grand jury in the russia investigation right near washington, d.c. in a statement ty cobb said quote, the white house favors anything that accelerates the conclusion of his work fairly. the white house is committed to fully cooperating with mr. mueller, unquote. my panel's back with me. phil, your reaction. >> well, that's more of a traditional lawyer's statement than the kind we saw from president trump's previous lawyer. doesn't really say much, obviously. >> can we throw a penalty flag for just a moment here. the white house favors anything, except the president's son couldn't search his e-mails for a year and couldn't tell us what happened in the meeting until the "new york times" released the e-mails. give me a break, that's ridiculous. >> i just spoke with ty and he said they did not know anything about this. they still don't know anything about this. and he said, as he said in a statement that we're all in