destabilizing environment, in that kind of environment, if the president doesn't feel he can convene his closest aides, the people in whom he's supposed to have trusted enormous amounts of confidence and authority. if he can't bring those individuals into a room and have confidence that those people are on his side searching the administration's best interests, that certainly sets up a dynamic that we haven't seen in-mile-an-hour foreign policy in a long time. it's certainly not a healthy dynamic. and as i said, i worry how our adversaries can capitalize on that as much as everything else. >> nick rasmussen, thank you for the chat. protecting trump from trump. new insights from bob woodward's book on how the president is trying to dissuade him from talking to robert mueller.