that in a moment. i want to go to the former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. harry. that's where the michael cohen case is right now. wendy murphy is the former prosecutor and david gergen served as adviser to four presidents. harry, look, as you heard jeff reporting, the president essentially acting as his own lawyer and in a sense, you hear that now when he's saying going off with his list of things and going back to a year ago before there were guilty pleas and all sorts of p inindictments. but he's tweeting one thing that clearly contradicts what he said before. this is what happens when someone who isn't a lawyer essentially takes on their own defense. >> that's absolutely right. and this is not a good idea. he's saying one thing. there's videotape showing something the opposite. he's continuing to call the investigation a hoax. when many people have gone into court, under oath, admitting they've committed serious crimes. even if it doesn't lead back to him to say the investigation is a hoax at this point doesn't really make any sense.