corner both in terms of political messaging and legally. one official said. we are joined now by "the wall street journal" white house reporter eli stokols who joins us by phone. eli, tell us more about your report, about what is happening in the white house, and it doesn't appear as though they've got control of the president's tweets. >> no, lawrence. this is sort of an uphill battle and an ongoing one. the intervention. that's how one of the people involved described it to us. that took place over a month ago after the president's infamous tweet that president oba had wiretapped his offices at trump tower. and there were some people who gathered around him and said, look, you're painting yourself into a bad corner politically and legally potentially when you just sort of shoot off on twitter and say these things that we can't really prove or defend. and they've had discussions with him, you know, since then and