personnel. and then he follows that up and says well, and under those circumstances i might have to take action setting him up to one, in his mind to have a stronger negotiating position in terms of narrowing the scope and two to, politically build the support to potentially refuse to sit for the interview at all. >> and say this is not what the probe was supposed to be about. i this i most of his people will say this probe's about russia or it's about nothing. >> heidi's right. the tweets were signals to the surrogates and the people who talk on his behalf signalling what to say. >> what do you think these questions help? certainly the questions suggest a very wide scope of questioning well beyond russia. >> i think that the goal of releasing these questions might have been to try and convince trump not to go in for an interview with mueller. >> hasn't he seen the questions himself? >> he pays more attention to what he sees in the media. >> you're kidding. you mean only this is so