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President trump and the white house. i want to bring in francesca chambers and michael to talk about this. you heard him say he doesn't need a team, he is the team. how do you see that approach working so far? >> i'm a lawyer but i wouldn't want to represent myself, and i would suggest that even though his political instincts are often spot on, this might be a case where he'll want to surrender some judgment to an outside counsel. look, they haven't offered, brianna, a substantive defense to the allegations which, frankly, don't seem like they're very much in dispute. the whistleblower complai...

Members of congress to disrupt that hearing earlier this week. but in the end, if it gets past the house and there is a senate trial, there will need to be some level of substantive defense. i thought that mick mulvaney, frankly, as a legal matter was on the right path a week ago when he tried to own the quid pro quo, but very quickly they did an about-face on that. so bottom line thus far, there hasn't been a substantive defense, it's all been about the process. >> they should have a substantive defense by now, right? you would think they wouldn't be just flip-flopping and confined of flailin...

The country. by day, what do i do? i answer the telephone, and the people who are calling me to talk about issues are scattered all across the country. it's not so clear to me that this has really resonated yet with americans all across the nation. so i know it's a hot subject for us, i know it's hot on the eastern seaboard and the northeast among the cable outlets and so forth, but in the rest of the country, i think people are focused on jobs, health care and the economy. so to the extent he's able to show something in that regard, he, the president, it's in his best interest. >> yeah, i thi...