that. but the president's lawyers are afraid that he becomes easily distracted. he will go on tangents, talk about other things, bring up other matters, and the president can get very angry. so how would the president respond to these questions that are really skeptical questions about these crucial decisions he made to fire flynn, to fire comey, how he has dealt with jeff sessions, his own ties to russia, the meeting that his son had in 2016 with russians offering dirt on hillary clinton. these are questions that have loomed over the presidency for more than a year now and have really dogged him. and the president's lawyers were really afraid of how he would react in such an intense situation under questioning. >> to our viewers, we're sharing the screen intentionally with these questions on a rolling basis. again, there are 49 of them, but some of the instant analysis along with the writing in "the new york times" this evening leads us to believe the actual