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attorney for the southern district of new york elly honing. julia, start with you. did somebody tell the president he could take over this investigation? where is it coming from? seems to just be coming out of his ad-lib interview as he frequently does. sort of spins from the cuff here. seems that this is coming from a place of increased rhetoric from president trump. he wants to show that he has control over the situation. in fact a lot of times likes bringing up the russia investigation. perhaps that plays to his base who thinks this is part of the witch-hunt he describes treating him and others like paul manafort unfairly. it could be that he s watching what the coverage of the manafort trial, that s getting to him. could be he sees people like don mcgahn, his white house special counsel speaking to robert mueller and heard a lot about the fact robert mueller could be preparing a slew of indictments to giv