sensitive, with bob mueller's investigation into russian election interference heating up. in a seven-page letter sent yesterday to the house oversight and senate homeland security committees, a trump lawyer accused bob mueller's team of obtaining thousands of trump campaign e-mails illegally. a spokesman for mueller tells nbc news that all e-mails were received either with the consent of the account's owner or through the, quote, appropriate criminal. ellen farkas is former deputy assistant secretary of defense for russia, ukraine and eurasia. geoff bennett, white house correspondent, danny cevallos. welcome to you all this sunday evening. geoff, i'm going to start with you. what's the white house saying about trump's phone call today? >> well, you know, we've been waiting for a few hours for the official white house readout, the official white house characterization of this phone call. because as you said, vladimir