committed where just eight hours later the crime was committed or talked about by the lead co-conspirator, here we have trump on tape on transcript saying i need that favor, then he says on that very transcript, directing rudy. he tells the president of ukraine. he says, rudy very much knows what s happening. he s a capable guy. if you could speak to him, that would be great. those were the president s own words, the idea that he didn t direct guiliani, that doesn t carry any watt. bill, what do you see as significant in the fact that the white house is moving away from perfect call and into more blamely lying and trying to say we didn t ask rudy to do this. we weren t involved, well, the money wasn t held up, anyway. there seems to be some awareness even at the trump presidential level that the old defense were very weak. i think so. i think they re counting on republicans at the end of the day saying, well, he did a lot of things he shouldn t have done, rudy is kind of a half of