appearances when they arrived at the white house. the president was not as impressed with them in person as he had been when they had the tv makeup on and the underlighting and you can t see that pants. anyway, that is how we have arrived at the president not really having a legal team on the russia scandal anymore. jay sekulow is his one outside attorney now. he s also a fox news guy. he has been, spent this week trying to calm everybody down by saying it s not just him. he s got other people working with hem frim from his conserva activist legal group. that includes, we learned today, the author of this book byzantine rome and the greek popes . he has a phd in medieval history, which he pursued, quote, following a mid-life crisis. he wrote his book on the greek popes and eventually went back to practicing law, mostly working as a contract prosecutor for local d.a. oz s in georgia.