>> as the president and rudy giuliani continue to paint the russia investigation as a witch hunt and a hoax, philip bump of the "washington post" points out that today's news, quote, brings the investigation by mueller to a total of 20 inviduals d three businesses that have either been indicted or admitted guilt and a total of 75 charges filed by the year-old probe. one-third of the counts included in mueller's indictments, 25 of them target manafort. let's bring in our leadoff panel for a friday night. the aforementioned josh gerstein, senior white house reporter for politico. jeremy bash, former chief of staff at both cia and the pentagon. and jill wine-banks, here in new york with us, veteran attorney and former assistant watergate special counsel. welcome to you all. josh, i want to begin with you because you were present for part of this today, even at a point before which you knew what you were witnessing. tell us what you saw. >> well, i was down at the