schwan. greg bauer, former u.s. attorney and fbi assistant director. ken dilanian who covers security and intelligence for nbc news. and white house correspondent for bloomberg news, shannon petty piece along with ashley parker doing white house duty for the washington post at trump's summer get away in new jersey. thanks to all of you for being here on this sunday night. i want to set the stage with you first, mr. brower, about the potential legal jeopardy the president is putting himself in or not. how do you assess the statement that jay sekulow made there essentially saying that it's not illegal? do you think that they are now in a worse legal position than they were? >> well, they are certainly not doing themselves any favors with statements like this. i've said it before, i'll say it again. it's a really bad idea for the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation to be speaking out like this, especially by way of twitter. it remains to be seen what the mueller team will make of this particular tweet, but it's not necessarily the case, but it does not create exposure. >> jonathan swan, these tweets seem to be the product of -- the