we are better off having him in moscow than we are having him in virginia or wherever he ends up. >> so given that you know the person for whom the person we're talking about worked, do you think that you know who this person is? >> no, i don't think that i do. i thought about it, but i don't think that i've ever met him. but again, if the reporting is accurate, i want to keep echoing the reporting, he is as close as putin as you can get. you is in every single meeting with putin and prime ministers around the world. and so that means that he is preparing the paperwork for those big bilateral summits. so one step removed from president putin. >> michael mcfaul, thanks so much. and let's go to a new report with remarkable insight into the dynamics inside the trump family. in the atlantic new cover story, theyry while the president writes his chapter in history,