the efforts it seems by the president to corrupt them. >> michael? >> i think bill largely hits that right on the head, and just to sort of encapsulate the president's mindset here, i think it is all that insular time has he has with himself imagining all his enemies coming at him from various angles and then believing that he can use the institutions of government to block and break and sort of push back those folks that are coming at him, whether it is mueller or congressional investigations and certainly trying to find friends who will go out and be his mouthpiece, who will protect his interest to bill's point, his self interest here, not the overall governmental interest, not the overall national interest, but his own personal interest. i think that's what has animated, pushed this president to the point, to maya's first