to washington our correspondent carson phenomena is on the story for us so cars didn't we have evidence here that someone has not been telling the truth about this payment and about what they knew and when they knew about it and yet the u.s. president seems to be made out of ten flawed how do you explain this i can't buy that it's rather fascinating nothing really seems to damage this president and his standing at least not in the eyes of his core supporters actually his approval ratings have risen over the last few months much higher now than they were just half a year ago. in we know there are so many contradictory messages that are coming from truong and his legal team. you're covering this white house to do you see this as a strategy or is this a sign of of chaos among his legal team do you think they're panicking