counsel might have been the worst thing to happen to them for them developing a spine and saying this is enough. why is that? because it now allows them to abdicate their responsibility for holding the president accountable because director mueller is so expected. it s an unintentional blowback. however, there are two things. one, republicans are kind of defending at least on the far right what happened with kushner in this. they re saying, well, henry kissinger had a back channel as well, but henry kissinger and his back channels, we re talking about cafes and coffee shops, not the russian facilities, which is a neutral spot. if we were doing who won the week, that would have been your who won the week. they would have won the year. this is a boone for lawyers. but malcolm, that is the other point because if you look at another point and compare this to kissingerian politics, you didn t have henry kissinger going into these countries where we re setting up diplomatic