must -- jeff zeleny is out front live at the white house. jeff, i don't know we've had semantics play such an important role in a white house as we are now. what more can you tell us about the president's thinking as these mueller investigations go on and obstruction, you know, obviously is still on the table from mueller's side? >> erin, it's clear semantics led by the president, led by his messages on social media in the morning on twitter, in the morning 3-d morning lead to a strategy. the strategy comes after the tweets. you saw an hour and a half or so after the president urged or called on his attorney general to stop the russia investigation. suddenly rudy giuliani, jay sekulow, other lawyers were saying, no, no, this is an opinion. i was wanting to know if the white house was going do adopt the same line. usually they refer questions to them. this time the reverse, we heard from the president's lawyers then echoed by the white house secretary at the podium. it is interesting to know where does the presidential opinion again, a presidential directive