One thing this does do for the president's legal team is it gives them a little exit ramp or breathing room with the president, because we're told from the inside there is no diminishment in the president's hunger to -- interview, to sit down with mueller, to go face-to-face. an astonishing sdmeen ining sc woodward's book where the president's legal team tries to do a mock session to convince him it wouldn't go well, which it didn't. >> hmm. >> does anybody -- thank you, mike allen. happy, happy friday. does anybody think bob mueller's going to back down on any point? >> of course not. no. >> ...