legal team, attorneys, were baffled by mulvaney's performance, stunned he explicitly linked the decision to suspend aid to ukraine to the president's desire to see ukraine conduct politically advantageous investigations. ours sources tell cnn that white house aides and lawyers prepared mulvaney to go out and take the podium in the briefing room but prepared him more to focus on the white house announcement yesterday that next year's g-7 summits is held at the president's property in doral, florida. they were not necessarily preparing him to make some sort of big rechlgs about the ukraine scandal, which is part of why there was such a swift reaction inside the white house to the president's words. for example, jay sekulow, the president's lawyer came out with a statement quickly distancing the legal team from what mulvaney said. and then within hours the acting chief of staff was working with press officers to release a cleanup statement which tried to argue that mulvaney hadn't said exactly what he said. answering a question at the heart of the impeachment inquiry