methodical, diligent, by the book that trump and barr saw an opportunity. explain what you mean by that. >> we sort of lay out in this story about how over the course of two years mueller pursued this very by the book investigation. he amassed evidence, only spoke in subpoenas, only spoke in indictments, and there were long voids. there were long periods of time where there was nothing. and in that void the president acted, spoke, tried to discredit the investigation. and he and his lawyers had a very concert eed effort and strategy to discredit mueller and his team and to say the whole thing was baseless. and it was clearly a strategy meant to affect the court of public opinion. and i think that it actually had an impact. and what we saw this week was how reticent mueller was to sort