enemies. the problem, though, is that it's clear from what we've received from the white house that president trump does not make a distinction between the attorney general, bill barr, and what his duties are to the country and how he feels about bill barr, which is that bill barr is his ally, and bill barr is another one of his political fixers. this is going to increase scrutiny on the justice department fairly or no. people are going to say, now, bill barr, you need to prove to us that you are not the man that president trump has portrayed you to be in this conversation with the ukrainian president. >> michael crowley, we just heard from philip rucker how all of this is affecting the mood inside the white house. there's also the question of the president himself. you were at that press conference. we played a clip of it. in your report, watching the president today, you said you saw his mood go from feisty to self-pitying to deflated. >> yeah, that's right. you know, there were moments this week at the united nations where the president was remarkably low energy as he would say, particularly his grand address to all the foreign