to the kids down to kushner, it is -- it's scarring them. the president is immobilized. he can't focus on anything else for any period of time. the minute -- the second russia headline comes. >> a lot has happened, a lot of crises have happened. we've got harvey. we've got what's going on with north korea. the president has made a number of foreign trims. he's trying to reset. every single time he goes back to washington or every single time one of these crises passes, what pops up again, the russian investigation. >> exactly. and you have republicans in congress who are leading these investigations who see in some ways these investigations as a way to show independence from this president, particularly as he creates his own controversies. so they're not stopping their work anytime soon. the problem for the president too is that there is really no end in sight here when it comes to these probes. and we get these bits and pieces of information, these kinds of drip drip drip which point to the fact that, you know, they didn't disclose all the information that they probably