statement for his son don junior. you said trump's advisers wanted to be truthful so their account couldn't be repudiated later if the full details emerged. they got overruled by the president, who released a significantly less forthcoming statement that ultimately did get repudiated. what's going on in the white house, phil, who has control over this? >> yeah, well, the president's the one with control, and let me say first, this is not fake news, it's very real news, the result of meticulous reporting. and we're highly confident in what our sources are telling us. a number of sources from different areas. to answer your question about the story itself. this is the president taking full control of the russia matter, this was a question for his son. instead the president acted as the family's lawyer, the family's strategist, the