welcome back. as far as timing, perhaps it's no coincidence that the announcement from the president came just after the extent of don mcgahn's cooperation with the special counsel was made public. look, as you mentioned, the president is pushing back against reporting on mcgahn's departure and he's playing up the big reveal for his replacement. here are those tweets. the president says this, ivanka trump and jared kushner had nothing to do with the so-called of pushing out of don mcgahn. the fake news media loves to portray chaos in the white house. just a smooth running machine with changing parts. he add, i am very excited about the person who will be taking the place of don mcgahn as white house counsel. that spelling error is the president's, not ours. he said, i liked don, but he was not responsible for me not firing bob mueller or jeff sessions. as far as replacements, i can tell you we understood emmitt flood has emerged as the front-runn front-runner. he has been working here since may when he was hired to replace