$400,000 of his own money to pay for some of his staff's and former campaign acquaintances pay for some of their legal bills. these are mounting legal bills as part of this ongoing russia probe. there's a lot of questions. you know, who decides which staffers get the money? could it possibly include paul manafort and michael flynn? the president meanwhile he's continuing to dismiss these investigations as a hoax and a witch hunt, but make no mistake, the legal bills are very real and wracking up at a rapid rate, so by offering $430,000 of his own money, he's hoping to offset some of those legal expenses for his staff. julie? julie: all right, with more on this and we thank you, kristen fisher, this feud between the white house and representative wilson, it just doesn't seem to want to go away. we go now to a senior political correspondent. thank you so much for coming in. first of all, the mere fact that