with a professor of international politics at city university of london. thank you for being with us. as far as this at&t merger story, rudy giuliani muddies the waters, yet again. remember the stormy daniels saga. he was saying that it was president trump, not the department of justice, that blocked the merger. the doj has previously denied the president was involved. is giuliani helping or hurting the president? it s very difficult to say. he was brought in, i think, partly because of his reputation. he s a fighter, a sort of political street fighter by reputation. and i think the idea was much more aggressive stance, particularly with the media. and kind of painting a picture of a beleaguered president, a man of the people, fighting the system. but unfortunately, it seems to have gone the other way. that is, he s opened up president trump to more exposure in the stormy daniels question