whether or not any laws were broken. >> i'm not in the business of advising the white house, but i would say as much as you can, focus on the things that need to get done. message on these sorts of things and try to avoid the distractions. i think that would help us a lot. >> reporter: what republicans are trying to do, jim, is compartmentalize, ill know all the controversies coming out of the white house and focus on their agenda. it is hard to do that when what is happening in the white house is really over shadowing what they are trying to do, particularly as they are trying to move this health care bill, jim. as you remember, when the white house, the obama white house was trying to pass the health care bill in 2009, 2010, they had a major megaphone coming out of the white house. right now there is virtually no messaging operation coming out of the white house on this -- key time as they are trying to push this health care bill as they are mired in this russia controversy that continues to develop day after day, jim. >> yeah, it's hard to compartmentalize when you're