hill, phil, in recent days. the pundits on the sunday shows, a lot of people criticized john dowd saying, why are you being so quiet? then he called mueller a man with integrity, he is conducting this investigation to great ability. now we see chaos on the legal team. >> this is uncomfortable on capitol hill, as you know. he had a very clear point that he wanted to make. yes, he had been criticized for holding out for a couple days, but he also backchannels to the white house. he's also pretty close to mr. mcgahn, the white house counsel. it caused a lot of people to step back and say, whoa, but they also appreciated that because they would like things to be tamped down a little bit. it signals a shift in posture and a posture more on the lines of what we've seen from the president on twitter in the last