Tonight, former prument is attacking the justice department again after revealing that he is the target of the special counsel s election probe. this is him in iowa earlier tonight. they go after trump but they don t go after [ laughter ] they should give a little of that oomph to going after the terrorists. maggie haberman, a senior political correspondent for the new york times joins me now. i mean, to hear him saying that, i don t think it s surprising. it came unprompted. at this lodge event and he discuss started talking about it. what s your sense from your reporting about what his reaction to this was privately. so, he was for somebody not great at keeping other people s secrets he can be good at keeping his own. he was not especially chatty with people in his circle about this over the last two days. he ended up putting it out because they got a news inquiry about it. he was trying to get ahead of it. as we have seen with his previous two indictments this is not yet an indictment but a likely one and wanted to control the narrative.