john hardwood. former federal prosecutor. with the welcome to you all, i'm going start with you. pretty bad week for the president. also with the inspector of cohen cooperating. the mystery national enquirer safe. all these stories about the president allegedly. can you give us a gauge of the president and the staff's mood because we know he's gone on a tweet storm this morning. >> that's true, alex, great to be with you. look, president trump, people close to president trump describe his mood as calm for now, but they say they're certainly bracing for the president to melt down and lash out. as you mentioned, we're getting a view of what's on the president's mind as we often do on saturday's like this based on his twitter feed. apparently up early watching fox news. he tweeted his reaction to a segment about hillary clinton's e-mail investigation. he's also suggesting a new tad