very close to the president told me that there is a desire to lift the band aid off by some people in the white house who thinks the president would be smart to get it all done with at once and would have told him that. >> maggie haberman, thank you. joining us now two lawyerla jeff toeobin, how big of a deal is this? >> this is an irrelevant part. one of the great mysteries of donald trump performance both as a president and a candidate is why he's been so -- of vladimir putin. why did he change the platform or the republican party to make it sympathetic to him. one hypothesis is he has some sort of business relationship