his testimony. whether it would ever come to his testimony being in court or somewhere else, i just don t know. but that s certainly the way mccabe ceasees it. pete, does this investigation go forward in terms of how partisan it is? is there anything you see that can derail it? well, i don t think it s any more partisan today than it was yesterday or the day before in terms of all the things being said about it. so no, i don t think this is going to have a big effect on the mueller investigation. i think they re well aware of all the events that we re now hearing about. to the extent that mccabe has notes and things that he can say, i m sure he s already said them to the special counsel. i would be very surprised if he hasn t. of course, geoff, the president praising this decision on twitter to fire mccabe. any sense of the mood in the white house right now? reporter: well, folks in the west wing are referring to all questions about this to the president s outside counsel. we o