you to be in this conversation with the ukranian president. >> michael crowley, we just heard from philip rucker how all of this is affecting the mood inside the white house. there is also the question of the president himself. i want to make sure i get the words right, but in your report watching the president today, you said you saw his mood go from feisty to self-pitying to deflated. >> that's right. there were moments this week where the president was low energy, particularly his grand address to all the foreign leaders yesterday morning where he seemed sort of half awake and incredibly bored. i think it was a sign that he was probably very distracted. definitely we saw some real anger today. he lashed out at the press, he lashed out at one reporter individually who asked him a question he didn't like and trying to insult him, a very good reporter. and then a theme that i saw throughout the day, including at the press conference, was this self-pity repeatedly throughout the day. he's saying, you're not writing any stories about the hard work i'm doing, look at all the