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Investigation that would ultimately claim his presidency, which might in one way make this president, president trump, seem honest and transparent by comparison. president trump honestly hates the investigation and has been nothing but transparent about that hatred. more now on all this from the white house from cnn's abby phillip. do we know or does the white house have a plan in place as to how they're going to respond to the report being filed? >> well, anderson, the white house has started to prepare for the likelihood that this mueller investigation is going to wrap up pretty soon. they h...

>> well, anderson, the white house has started to prepare for the likelihood that this mueller investigation is going to wrap up pretty soon. they've brought in some help from -- on the communications side. moving some of the staffers who have been working on this behind the scenes to help coordinate the press conversation about the report when it does come out. but as always, with this white house, the true communications director is the president himself, and he has often taken the lead in responding directly to mueller and responding to all of these revelations that have been coming out fro...

You shouldn't get all positive press. you should be judges fairly. but if you go back and look at the presidents we remember teddy roosevelt and john kennedy and ron reagan, all of them had very, very positive relationships with the press. and they were respectful and that is possible to do. look, i work for reagan on the communications side. people say he's never going to get a fair break from the press because the press is too liberal. he is too conservative. they're always going to beat him up. that simply was not the case. reagan had a very, very good relationship. a democrat wrote a book ...

The communications side, what would be your message? how would you speed this through if you wanted to get this done before mid-terms? >> well, first put it in the hands of mitch mcconnell. he knows how to do these things. you strongly defer to the senate majority leader as the white house has been dealing. second, reasonableness. there should be procurement of documents. should be a reasonable effort to make the documents available and the white house is doing that. i think they were smart to draw the line at a fishing expedition where the democrats were trying to get the staff documents, whi...

>> i haven't spoken to you, mike rogers, since that interview was released yesterday. you must have been stunned like all of us. >> in some jobs in government, especially if you're in the communications side, those aren't conversation you should even have in your own office with your own staff. so, that's what was shocking. it seemed a little bit immature and it seemed absolutely not to understand the good boundaries of civility in this town. if you want to get anything done, coming in and talking tough is not going to do it. you have to be able to build relationships. it's not about subtracti...