buds. all the time he seemed to be saying, i don't want this guy on the other team. now he's on the other team. >> yeah, i mean, look. mueller and the justice department don't give out cooperation deals like this, plea deals like this, if they don't have anything to give. i think that is really what unnerves the trump lawyers is that to go to this extent, to go this far, is pretty significant. and raises questions about what does he really know? this is not just something they give out for free. so that is a thing. and the other thing that i think is significant here is that the russia thing continues to cast a cloud over this white house. the white house had tried to push the notion that by the end of the year, the russia investigation would sort of be moved beyond it, that mueller would have wrapped up. i don't think this is the ending of the year that they thought it was going to be. >> the president's lawyer must look pretty stupid, he'd been telling the president that tale for months now that everything's cool, it's going to be over by christmas. all he could do today was trash on the credibility of flynn by