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We're now two weeks into overtime. he said in that interview he would decide before the end of the month. he told you, i did not intend to say that. >> that's right. >> he just said it in the interview. and throughout your piece is a character who is capable of those kinds of moments. you can see where those kinds of moments come from in the way you've reported his life. >> well, listen, that's what made him so compelling in his race against ted cruz last year, was a sense that you were out on the perimeter with this guy who is making decisions on the fly and has -- he's a gut player, right? h...

He said in that interview he would decide before the end of the month. he told you, i did not intend to say that. >> that's right. >> he just said it in the interview. and throughout your piece is a character who is capable of those kinds of moments. you can see where those kinds of moments come from in the way you've reported his life. >> well, listen, that's what made him so compelling in his race against ted cruz last year, was a sense that you were out on the perimeter with this guy who is making decisions on the fly and has -- he's a gut player, right? he's somebody who kind of acts out o...

Trump is not guilty of anything. he's trying to insulate the president from any actual criminal wrong diagnosidoing. we don't know what comes of that and ma what mooler actually has. what i see is a strategy and a defense here well, there may have been some bad actors who were sharing information, who were working with the russians in their quest to destabliilize the election. the problem is how is the head of the campaign and ultimately the president do you not own any of that in if it actually happened? and secondarily we know there was a lot of contacts, whether it was his son talking to hi...

Investigation and north korea and russia and the battle of supreme court justice brett kavanaugh it's been quite a year. it's been quite a consequential second year in office for president trump. >> that's one way of seeing it. >> cnn political reporter nia mallika henderson. merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> is there any way to sum up the year, david gregory of what it's been like? >> i think the headspace for president trump is so clouded by the mueller investigation and any perceived slight to him. i mean, he walks around with a sense of being aggrieved and under siege. he's so reacti...

>> i think for the head space for president trump is so clouded by the mueller investigation and any perceived slight to him, i mean, he walks around with a sense of being aggrieved and under siege and he's so reactive, he's reactive to all of that that his -- as a gut player that temperament and that gut feeling of always searching for a fight is foremost on his minds. and it really is what has clouded everything else, including areas where he's shown some promise. that's the piece that i think really hangs over the second year is the desire to fight and the ability to revain himself or to ha...