question but he took it farther than the question needed to go. and he's saying there is a red line. it is mine and outside the area of russia he sort of acknowledged that was a legitimate area. the subtext which runs through this entire interview is that it's everybody else's fault and not his. that he shouldn't be subject and may not be subject to a russian investigation. he tries to fog that up again. but he doesn't want it clearly to go outside the boundaries of where he thinks this special counsel has authority that he's not challenging at this point. >> and don, politically, right, there was a point in time when it might have been more plauzible for the president to argue nothing to see here. why is the media looking into the president's finances? but with each billow in this building cloud of smoke around