mueller, you know. short term he may be doing this as an excuse not to testify before the special counsel's investigators. and longer term, steve, it may just be that if the mueller team puts out its report as we all expect them to do, lays out the facts as they see it, it would give the president and his allies a chance to say, you know what, we don't believe any of this anyway because this investigation was tainted from the start. >> i think that's the plan here. i think the question is whether it is going to work. we have to keep in mind the nunes memo, whichever version is ultimately going to be released, is just a four page cliff notes version of what is probably a 50, 60, 70-page application by the justice department to the fisa court, the foreign intelligence surveillance court. i think one of the real questions here is how much of the steele dossier, how much of the controversial part of the nunes memo was actually relevant to the fisa court. was there corroborated information? was there loss of additional