we don't have the sound bite. secretary mike pompeo says he fully expects russia to meddle in the 2018 election which should be chilling to everyone involved in this. harry, while we have you and your lawyerly expertise, rudy giuliani, the president's personal attorney apparently now trying to negotiate down the terms of the president may be speaking to robert miler. just questions having to do from the time before he was president which would mean no questions about possible obstruction. is that a deal you think mueller would be likely to take? >> no way. just those questions, maybe two hours, maybe the president can get three lifelines. mueller, for mueller, the absolute essential would have to be some testimony under oath about the matters that he is actually investigating and that's what trump wants to avoid and that all points in the direction of a court battle where i think the advantage lies with mueller, but it's very tricky on both legal and political grounds.