the way, is a distant relative of the legendary baseball player of the same name. this as staffers are reportedly lawyering up amid the ongoing investigation into russia meddling and the revelations about donald trump jr., jared kushner and paul manafort's meeting with several russian players in june of last year. joining me now is beverly hall berg, president of the district media group and a fellow at the heritage foundation. beverly, good to have you here. >> thanks for having me. arthel: let's start here, in terms of getting a handle on situation, who could lead the charge and what direction should he or she give? >> whatever, whoever is leading the charge, the main thing to keep in mind is anytime you have a crisis communications scenario, which i think we could easily say last week this russia story is, you need to tell the story fully and early. sadly, neither of those things happened. it's this drip, drip, drip of information that's coming out that is especially damaging to the administration.