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