come down here and get a group of them together so we can talk about that because these are familiar faces to you at home. how do they think we're doing? where do they think this is all headed? joining me now is francesca chambers, kaitlan collins and brian karen. sorry to give you my back filip good to see you. good to see you. listen, you had a demonstration of why i can't do your job. i'd be kicked out in two minutes. i'd make brian look polite. but in terms of your sense, frances francesca, i'll start with you. the state of play between the free press and the presidency, where are we? >> we're having white house press briefings now about once a week and i think that's pretty telling, that as this crisis has moved down we didn't see the white house press secretary out there. we had kellyanne conway tonight but we haven't seen senior advisers to the president on television to help manage this crisis. i think that's number one. but number two, and i pressed on this yesterday in the white house press briefing with this paul manafort and a potential pardon, they are not ruling it