again this is certainly a white house who is in a crisis mode here. there are divisions and a feud that has broken out between the white house counsel and the acting chief of staff mulvaney. mulvaney certainly has caught the president s iron last week press conference that he had in which he sort of owned up to the quid pro quo and said that it was a common occurrence. this is a president who, you know, has still been frustrated with the lack of support he s received from other republicans, including some yesterday. there were higher hopes in the building behind me for how the lawmakers would do trying to tear down these two witnesses. just go back to that for a moment between kent and taylor. these were not people you can categorize as never-trumpers or deep state operatives. thes public officials, career civil servants who have worked under republicans and democrats with impeccable reputations. those are hard people to scapegoat. and i think between the two