bid to save the president by sacrificing three of trump's top deputies. that's according to the "washington post" which reports today republicans are sowing doubts about whether sondland, giuliani and mulvaney were actually representing the president or freelancing. they were rogue. in other words, the gop is effectively offering up the three to be fall guys. javid, is this credible? given your knowledge of the bureaucracy? the chief of staff was head of omb, the president's special envoy, our ambassador to the european union and the president's lawyer who's doing all kinds of work over there for him. the dirty work. the wet work. doing all of that work over there and it isn't coming from him. >> it seems implausible and one thing this ukraine investigation seemed to show is how much of a deviation has occurred from the traditional national security council and decision-making process to what may have happened with rudy giuliani and mick mulvaney and ambassador sondland.