reporter and msnbc contributor as well, jeremy peters. ashley parker, you wrote earlier this week about the hurricane hitting the white house. and now there is more of a hurricane. they re ramping up the legal team with the admission of ty cob as another expert, experienced washington lawyer. how do you deal with the fact that don junior didn t tell anybody there was this russian operative, former former counter intelligence official, also at that meeting? well, i think that s incredibly problematic. and that s one thing the white house has been grappling with, is that they don t seem to have the full scope of information, and they re sort of handling it in this drip, drip, drip. oftentimes, as it s presented to them by the news media, which is how you don t want to handle sort of crisis communications. and another problem is that this white house already had a lot of factions even in terms of just pr people. there s the press shop and people who sort of handle pr for the president