stormy daniels. in fact, he has sort of accelerated it. he's poured more fuel on that fire. he thinks that he does need to be more disciplined or he needs to perhaps come off the air for a while. he's also frustrated in the interview with sean hannity, who we also know is a trump confidant. they speak frequently. he was surprised by rudy suggesting that trump knew about these payments and said, oh, they were funneled through the law firm? and giuliani repeated back and said, oh, funneled, yes. and the president, according to our reporting, got mad at both men, saying funneled, that suggests a criminal enterprise. that's not what we're trying to do here. >> yeah, that's not a normal word. peter, i have two questions for you. number one, the rudy factor. since the hannity interview, it strikes us tonight he's been all or part of our lead story every night since. so there's that. and, secondly, a serious question we don't get to see you in new york that often. by percentage, how -- you cover this white house for "the new york times." how much of the trump presidency do you end up covering every day, and how much of this, the