months ahead. >> peter alexander, there's a lot of reporting out by this afternoon in the -- in politico, in "the new york times" earlier this the week that what sort of undergirds all of his grievances with leaders in congress is that they haven't had his back on russia. it reminds me of his grievances with jim comey who wasn't willing to protect mike flynn when it came to russia, his attorney general recusing himself from the russia investigation and then was the target of several angry trump tweets. this dynamic of the president expecting members of congress in either party frankly to have protected him from russia seems completely delusional. >> yeah, i think the bottom line is that the russia topic for this president is personal. certainly the way this investigation has gone, with the focus on jared kushner among others. don jr., his son being wrapped up into this. that's why on this topic in