the person in the driver seat is robert mueller. it is not donald trump and it isn't rudy giuliani who keeps changing his story to try to spin his way out of this. >> clearly the president is deeply concerned about what is going on. he would like to know what mueller has, as well. >>> let's turn to another sensitive issue, devon nunes told republican donors that the republicans have to keep the majority in the house of representatives in order to protect the president from mueller. listen to this. we have to keep all of these seats. we have to keep the majority. if we do not keep the majority all of this goes away. >> did he just say out loud something that members of congress are not supposed to say? >> yeah. absolutely. look, he went into that fundraiser for a political reason which is okay, completely legal. and he is making a political argument. also okay in the broad sense. but the fact of the matter is devon nunes, the argument he is making is members of congress don't work for the constituents that sent them. they work to pro

robert mueller might do. quote, "law enforcement officials who have worked with mr. mueller a long time federal prosecutor and the head of the fbi believe that he will try to use every tool he has to get the president to answer questions and that he will probably subpoena him to testify if he does not agree to be questioned voluntarily." okay. that's one possibility. and trump lawyers offered "the new york times" another very credible possibility this time, saying some of mr. trump's lawyers believe that mr. mueller will not subpoena their client out of fear of losing a court fight that could undermine the investigation's legitimacy to the public. and so robert mueller is approaching a very difficult decision point, probably the most difficult decision point that he will face in his investigation of the president of the united states. and now to answer the question of what robert mueller will do, what robert mueller should do, we are now joined by jill wine-banks and glen kersner. thank you for being here 44

>> special counsel robert mueller's team did speak to kristen davis. they also want her to appear before the grand jury. and they seem to be interested in her relationship with roger stone, which spans about a decade. they have been friends, at times they have worked together and she has an interesting back story all her own. she is known as the manhattan madam. she ran a manhattan prosecution ring and future a time she went to jail in the scandal surrounding new york governor eliot spitzer. now roger stone put out a statement today basically saying he doesn't have any idea what mueller wants with kristen either. says kristen davis is a long-time friend and associate of mine. i'm the godfather to her 2-year-old son. she knows nothing about russian collusion, wikileaks collaboration or any impropriety related to the 2016 election, which i thought was the subject of this probe. i understand she appeared voluntarily. i'm highly confident she will testify truthfully if called upon to do. >> so it appears that mueller investigation into roger stone is not o

those words do not appear in the authorization of the robert mueller investigation. but that second component of the authority, which is anything that arises in the investigation, includes anything, including obstruction of justice. the part of the mueller investigation that rudy giuliani publicly fears the most is obviously the obstruction of justice part. we have new reporting on that today from mari woss in the new york review of books. he says he has been allowed to read a confidential white house memo which is in the special prosecutor's possession which "explicitly states that when trump pressured comey he had just been told by two of his top aides his then chief of staff reince priebus and his white house counsel don mcgahn, that michael flynn was under criminal investigation." last year the trump defense team delivered a letter to robert mueller outlining their defenses of the president on obstruction of justice. the key element of their defense was that president trump did not know that his national security adviser michael flynn was being investigated by th

where we weigh in with robert mueller is still to be seen. what i would say, and i understand, i think, where trump's tweet was coming from is the question of what kinds of investigation joe mccarthy preside over versus the type of investigation that robert mueller is. i think we have to be careful here on another historical point to separate out joe mccarthy from mccarthyism. the term has come to refer to as you were saying, to make a wild accusation without evidence. that is a very different thing from what joe mccarthy did in his role as chairman of the permanent subcommittee on investigations, which was the real seat of his investigation into communist conspiracy, to subvert the u.s. government, and the role of communists in a variety of organizations, but particularly, their role with regard to government employees. the robert mueller investigation is much broader. its authority is much less clearly defined. joe mccarthy was in the end, we have to remember, answerable to congress, answerable to the american public, to the voters in wisco

mueller is a thug, that robert mueller is on a witch hunt. and it's been pretty successful according to the polls. robert mueller is powerless to defend himself. he does not comment in the media. he only has people who are on the outside who are commenting on his behalf. and we can argue about whether it's a good thing or a bad thing that rudy giuliani is talking this way. but is he right about how the politics play out? at the margins, he may well be right that the fight with mueller keeps his base motivated. >> thank you so much. jeffrey toobin is our legal analyst. >>> just ahead, more on the newly leaked recording of the house intelligence committee chairman talking about protecting trump from the special counsel robert mueller. we're going to play the clip for our viewer. >>> and breaking news, the death toll climbs in california's fire disaster, plus new details of the man suspected of starting one of the blazes and how he taunted a firefighter by text. see that's funny, i thought you traded options. i'm not really a wall street guy. wh

he is now cooping with robert mueller. how significant is this. >> it's significant one of the things did he he allowed a russian political operative and ukrainian oligarchs -- he helped them purchase inauguration tickets. foreign money, you are not allowed to do that. the fact -- so that in and of itself sort of shows the -- the lengths they go to to get close to the president. in addition he is cooperating with prosecutors as a part of his plea agreement. so we don't know what he is saying. but he could -- he- mueller will be able to ask him about the -- about what he might know, what some of the inner workings are, were there contacts with people in the trump orbit and russian -- and russians and the ukrainian og arcs. it is significant. >> and what's significant, also laura jarrett is we know the trump inauguration committee they raised a record $106 million twice with what the predecessors raised. that's significant. but what does samuel patton who pleaded guilty today to felony counts? what is his involvement in all

donald trump seems to goad robert mueller. we used to talk why is he not mentioning robert mueller? mueller continues detail, detail. mcgahn, 30 hours. plea deals. drives donald trump batty. >> stick around. more news to follow. sources telling cnn the president is rattled by new reports that the white house counsel don mcgahn provided more than 30 hours of testimony to the special counsel's investigators. >>> plus, a verdict in the trial of president trump's campaign chairman paul manafort could come any minute. stand by. you're in "the situation room." [telephone ring] ahoy-hoy. alexander graham bell here... no, no, my number is one, you must want two! two, i say!! like my father before... [telephone ring] like my father before... ahoy-hoy! as long as people talk too loudly on the phone, you can count on geico saving folks money. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. what's critical thinking like? a basketball costs $14. what's team spirit worth? (cheers) what's it worth to talk to your mom? what's the value of a walk in the woods? the value of c

it will not work with special prosecutor robert mueller. it will not work in impeachment hearing and not a trial in the united states senate where the lester holt interview about the firing of james comey will be played in its entirety for the united states senate if they sit as jurors in a trump impeachment trial. the president knows that fudging my tape lie won't work in the real world and so when it comes to his actual legal defense today's tweet is probably best read as a trumpian variation on what rudy giuliani said a month ago about the lester holt interview. the part about the president knew the investigation would continue after he fired comey so that couldn't be obstruction of justice. now let's listen once again to a portion of the unedited video in which donald trump describes to lester holt what he was thinking after he got the written recommendation from rod rosenstein to fire fbi director james comey. it is even more extraordinary to listen to now because the president begins his explanation with praise of rod rosenstein sayin

you've also worked with robert mueller. what do you make of the testimony of this star witness that's been there for the last couple days, rick gates, manafort's former deputy? >> i was the federal prosecutor as you mentioned and i have put big high stakes cooperators on the stand and that's what we're seeing now from mueller's team and these prosecutors are people who have done this before, they've put cooperating witnesses on the stand. i think what you're seeing them do is, one, use rick gates's testimony to corroborate other evidence that's already been put in and, two, very importantly, to bring the jury inside the scheme that he, by his own admission, rick gates, has done with paul manafort and describe the crimes they committed together. a lot has been talked about about the defense now trying to sully rick gates's testimony and his credibility. as a prosecutor, i didn't care if a jury liked my cooperating witness, i only cared that they believed him and he has every incentive to tell the truth here because he gets n

and by firing jim comey, and by seeking to fire robert mueller. we also know that the special counsel is examining donald trump's tweets and public statements. so why, why would donald trump continue to walk up to the line and in the view of many experts cross the line into clear obstruction of justice by admitting he's firing people investigating russian interference? here to help us answer that question, the very best of the best, chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney and former senior fbi official. maximum well, former clinton campaign advisor now director of progressive programming for sirius xm, jonathan swan, national political reporter for axios. also back with us, frank figliuzzi, former fbi assistant director for counter intelligence and steve schmidt is back. steve, you're going to end up with one name by the end of this. let me start with you, chuck. take me through what i understand now may not be a distinction worth making, that the president is somehow comforted by the fact he's been told he's not a target, he may never officially cr

i've literally led robert mueller into talk to my own counsel. and if he is not found something that he never will. >> what i understand actually wasn't something the president asked for or even know about that don mcgahn had been meeting with robert mueller and their team. and as far as holly clinton she has sweat planted throughout her years and i do not think has been uncooperative figure in public life. three and half hours, let's talk a little bit about benghazi -- 11 i was sitting there. i'm not really sure we are going with that but it is not something president trump wants. he likes to claim he is the most transparent president in history. but he fires anyone that he can who he feels is getting in the way. of this probe and the conclusion it was a witchhunt. and whatever else and robert mueller is going to do it meticulously and will take as long as he needs to get this right. >> should not that special counsel has declined to comment. not surprising there. john dowd, formerly outside counsel for the president says he thinks that don mcga

one more cooperator for robert mueller. he is samuel patten, the washington lobbyist with busy ties to a russian national who himself was a close colleague of paul manafort. he pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to register as a foreign agent, and he admitted to making false statements, obstructing the u.s. senate intelligence committee and causing foreign money to flow into the trump inaugural committee. what he's got to offer the special counsel remains to be seen. what he represents, though, is clear. another reminder on top

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in 2013, robert mueller sets up robert mueller and associates, a consulting firm, then also takes on clients through another firm who, by the way, several attorneys from there join robert mueller on his special counsel clinton-connected attorneys, no less. right, he does the same thing. it's the revolving door, it's cashing in on public service. it's outrageous. gregg: so there is bottom line, a revolving door between government service and big business, and when you go circling around that revolving door, you are getting wealthy off it. and that's taxpayer money, right? >> that's right. one thing i want to make clear is the revolving door, most people have come to accept it. it happens in the defense department, happens in the department of energy. honestly, we like experts from the government working as the contractors, contracting with the government, but this is the department of justice and the fbi. this is the top law enforcement agency in the country. these people throw men and women in jail, martha stewart, for example, someone that comey and mueller tag-teamed to throw in ja

mueller, sit down with robert mueller, and what they viewed at that time was, this was not a waiving of executive privilege, it was allowing don mcgahn to speak with the special counsel, but at a later date they could exert privilege over any information or material that don mcgahn gave to the special counsel. we have a lot of critics out there that say this isn't going to hold up. that's an interesting thinking they had at the time, at the same time, down the road they were thinking, they could block mueller from using any or all of that information from the special counsel's office. jim, thanks. i want to talk more about the breaking news. joining us now, colonel ralph peters. thanks for being with us. the notion from the president that he could run the mueller probe if he wanted to, what does that say to you? >> it says that he does not understand the law, for one thing. also, when i heard that, for whatever reason, i flashed on an incident from the 1990s, when boris yeltsin grabbed the baton from the band leader and tried to lead the band. everything fell apart. trump thinks he's

he's essentially putting pressure on robert mueller to wrap this up. this is something that you and i have reported on extensively. he's trying to essentially move this process along. rudy giuliani again this morning saying, look, we haven't heard from robert mueller in two weeks. we haven't gotten a response to the counter-proposal that the president's legal team submitted. remember, we talked about that several days ago, when they wanted to essentially limit the scope significantly of what types of questions could be asked and what types of follow-up questions could be on the table. giuliani saying this terms of an interview, it does not look good, but it is not finally decided. he also adds, it is time to put up, and they have nothing except a bunch of irrelevant charges. he says the charges have absolutely nothing to do with president trump. that's the new talking point today, as president trump, as you indicated, hallie, in the new interview overnight, saying that he could take charge of the russia investigation. i tried to press giuliani on what

the court ruled he should have to talk to robert mueller and should do so quickly. harry, these two people, what do they have anything to do with this and what does it have anything to do with roger stone? >> it's all about roger stone. they're a colorful could be, aren't they? they're zeroing in on stone and she's one of many people they want to talk to, the others haven't been madams. miller is to stone as gates was to manafort. he's the right hand man. he offered the constitutional argument, which was a loser saying mueller has no ability to did anything. the same thing manafort tried. he lost. he's going to have some real information to provide. the main thing it shows is that the sights are really locked in on stone, which should come as know surprise because this recent indictment of the gru folks in russia actually didn't name him because of doj policy but identified him in paragraph 44 as someone who had consorted with him. so mueller is obviously trying to stitch up russia and the u.s. looking very hard at stone. >> and whether or not stone was a potential

according to the e-mail that robert mueller has, this was a meeting to get information from the crown prosecutor of russia on hillary clinton's campaign. how is that legal? >> the question is how would it be illegal? the real question is would a meeting of that nature constitute a violation of the law. >> reporter: critics have pounced on this making the argument that the administration and president is moving the goal posts. we should point out despite a repeated number of calls from the president and his allies for this investigation to wrap up and in the words of rudy giuliani from robert mueller to put up or shut up, this investigation is moving forward. last week, cnn reported that the special counsel is making efforts to interview one key person in that trump tower meeting. the one that helped facilitate the meeting. the russian pop singer whose father has deep ties to vladimir putin. we do know that robert mueller and his team have been working alongside agalarov's legal team to secure an interview for more than a year. christine and phil. >> the president and his son have twis

another stone aid has been ordered to speak with robert mueller. this man was trying to not speak with him. one of his aids was trying to say that the special counsel's probe was too wide and he shouldn't have to follow a subpoena. well, a court has testified or has ruled that he should have to talk to robert mueller and he should do so quickly. harry, what are these two people -- how do they have anything to do with this? and what does this mean for roger stone? >> yeah. it is all about stone. look, the madam is a -- they're a colorful couple. but it is because of their long-standing friendship they are zeroing in on stone. b miller is kind of two-stone as gates was to manafort. he's the real right-hand man. he offered this constitutional argument, which is a real loser, basically saying mueller has no authority to do anything, the same thing manafort tried in edva. he will have some real information to provide. but the main thing it shows is that the sights are really locked in on stone, which should come as no surprise because this recent indict

mueller probe, there's still so much that we don't know about what robert mueller has uncovered. ryan nobles, cnn, berkeley heights, new jersey. >>> let's bring in cnn analyst and attorney areva martin joining via skype. thank you so much for your time. the u.s. president has chimed in on twitter saying that he, quote, allowed white house counsel don mcgahn and all other requested members of the staff to fully cooperate with the special counsel. adding, in addition we readily gave over 1 million pages of documents, most transnarnt history, no collusion, no obstruction. witch-hunt the president says. at face value what do you make of this claim of full cooperation? >> one thing we know, george have that the president's previous personal legal team were very much in favor of the president cooperating with the special counsel's investigation. their thought was if the president cooperated that the special counsel could wrap the investigation up rather quickly. we see that hasn't happened. the president has changed lawyers, as it relates to his personal attorneys. he brought on mr. ru

and robert mueller's team is still asking for an interview. apparently these negotiate nego have bern going on for well over a year. and we're told by his lawyer those negotiations are still ongoing. don't know if there's a deal or not. what this tells us the robert mueller investigation, obviously there's still some key pieces that they are trying to put together. we now know, obviously, that they are still trying to work on an interview with the president, but as far as that trump tower meeting which was a key part of this investigation, they really still want to talk to the two key figures, the two russian key figures who were a part of that, brooke. >> all right, evan perez thank you so much in alexandria. staying in washington here, ivanka trump the president's daughter and officially his special assistant breaking ranks today on the separation of immigrant children from their parents by her father's administration. >> that was a low point for me as well. i feel very strongly about that, and i am very vehemently against family separation.

some american media reports say robert mueller has evidence to the contrary. and one source in the intelligence community told me there was an electronic trail that put cohen in prague. there is no corroboration of that claim, but if true this is the collusion president trump's enemies have long imagined. cohen also knows about an interesting meeting in trump tower during their campaign. donald trump jr sat down trump tower during their campaign. donald trumer sat down with a lawyer from the kremlin and donald trumer sat down with a lawyerfrom the kremlin and promised dirt on hillary clinton. one former trump campaign aide told me, we couldn't even co—ordinate with the rnc in pennsylvania let alone with russian intelligence, but if there was not exactly a highly organised conspiracy it does leave open the possibility of collusion — that's what cohen's lawyer hints at and he says trump might have known ahead of time of russian hacking. donald trump has never been in such a serious trouble. his presidency might now hang on what cohen has to say. michael cohe

right before joining the robert mueller team. thank you for being here i am maria bartiromo, welcome to "sunday morning futures". the president ramps up his midterm campaigning as he is in the battleground state of ohio and pennsylvania. and threatening about shorting the government down over the border. plus more ahead. and the u.s. restoring stations iran. the president offered to meet the leaders with no preconditions. plus, the senate democratic leadership going to reverse course meeting with supreme court justice nominate brett kavanaugh. new email showing peter strzok tried to keep his security clearance before joining the robert mueller team as congress continues investigating the doj and fbi actions leading up to the 2016 election. a congressman is here who questioned peter strzok and he is here with us. next on "sunday morning ♪ ♪ futures". ♪ [music] first, the president holding a campaign style rally less than a hothead of a special election this upcoming tuesday. the president hitting on a wide range of topics la

mueller's russia investigation. less than a week after paul manafort was convicted on bank and fraud charges, the "wall street journal" is reporting that paul manafort sought a deal in the next trial. those discussions took place while he was deliberating in his last one in virginia. quote, the plea talks on the second set of charges stalled over issues raised by special counsel robert mueller, one of the people said. it isn't clear what those issues

he charges brought by special counsel robert mueller. michael cohen pleaded guilty to breaking federal direction law -- electton loss at the direction of the president including paying hush money. >> he paid money to silence women he he believed would be detrimental to the 2016 campaign and the candidate. it is clear that the wommn are pornr bbrn star -- are star stormy daniels and former playboy model karen mcdougal. cohen's plea deal raises the possibility he will provide other information to mueller. cooperation from another foomer truck they'd like -- trump aid michael flynn. he pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about rrssian official ccntact for >> good to see you, doug. breake had such a story before, is this likely to have an impact on donald trump? >> donald trump has been tefloo until now. pe fights back, deeies, dodges, he will never take the blame himself. to deflect blame, if not onto democrats onto opponentt who criticize them, most usually via he has yet to tweet on this turn oo events. this was a bad day for donald trump.

presence in the battle against robert mueller. driving the new cycle and taking media flack in the process. done enough of new york is rudy giuliani. welcome. >> how are you? >> doing well! we will drill down on the issues in a minute. since you been on the case, how would you describe the overall media coverage of the mueller investigation? >> hysterical. at times, taking things that are totally unimportant or relatively unimportant and driving it into all kinds of exaggerations. i think it is a bit of a hard case for them to handle because many of these things are very kind of -- they never understand when you're arguing an alternative. even though it did not occur, it would be perfectly legal. and it didn't. and lawyers argue that all the time they get confused and then there's always, the prevailing bias against him. they did not want to elect him. they trying to de-legitimatize him. many of them remind me of peter strzok and the fbi. probably texting the same things -- >> many of the journals that cover the president to peter

it's up to robert mueller. >> it certainly is. he knows a lot more about any of this than any of us do. >> thanks for that excellent reporting. >>> let's discuss all of this. eliot williams, former deputy assistant attorney general. molly ball, cnn political analyst, national political correspondent for "time," also with us former federal prosecutor glen kershner and cnn legal analyst laura coats. let's talk about this latest response from the giuliani trump legal team to robert mueller. wrap this up by september 1st. they don't want to talk about obstruction but they're willing to answer other questions. >> i'm shocked giuliani continues to believe he has so much leverage that he can dictate the terms of a conversation with special counsel mueller. the only leverage they really do have is you have this election that's looming and this doj initiative that says you cannot have this in an election year. you want it wrapped up. donald trump's not actually on the ballot. so there's an arguable claim to make that says that wouldn't act

robert mueller using the u.s. military information had the specifics of how the russians tried to destroy our election. what computer screens, what their key strokes were. what buildings they were in. the detail was so specific that we busted them red handed beyond any reasonable doubt. but think about this. if mike pence had his way and this had been shut down in may, like mike pence was saying, we would never have this evidence that, basically, showed what the russians tried to do and what they're going to try to do again in 2018. >> oh, yeah. that's just one part of it. i mean, for instance, before the mueller probe began, we were operating in which the trump campaign and trump white house was insisting that there was no contact with russians at all. >> but mike pence said, can you believe that mike pence actually had the nerve to say in 2017, we were never talking to any russians. nobody related to this campaign ever talked to any russians. we were talking to americans. just as extraordinary lie when you look

how does that look to robert mueller? >> yeah, when -- look, when you're building an obstruction case, you're trying to prove inat any time i intent. all the subsequent statements lying about the meeting shows intent to obstruct. so it clearly has value. whether it happened or not, whether dirt was provided or not doesn't essentially matter if it goes toward obstruction. >> all right. doesn't sound good. thank you so much for spending some time with us. when we come back, the star witness in the manafort trial gets ready to take the stand. he's one of the original trump campaign aides charged in the mueller probe. his name is rick gates and he may be one of the only people who can connect the dots between paul manafort, the russians and the trump presidential campaign. donald trump goes negative on lebron james in what may be a political miscalculation. donald trump will have blood on his hands for his attacks on the media as the enemy of the people. stay with us. this is your wake-up call. if you have moderate to severe

." >> at least you prepared a slow monday for me, so don mcgahn speaking to robert mueller's investigators. he did not give the laws a full act of what they told mueller's team trump's long time personal attorney could learn son, cnn could learn soon their in the final stages of their prosecution. they could be preparing criminal charges by the end of this month. >> rudy juligiuliani had a new reality bending argument for in the president should not be temperatures. -- testifying. >> you say that he will tell the tru truth, but it is someone's version of truth. giuliani tries to create a universe of factual unreality. he says there are no such things, let's go to joe with more. >> the president allowing the white house council to sit down with the special council for hours and hours. there are conflicting ideas in play right now while sources say that don mcgahn did not give any incriminating information to the special council, it is pretty clear he did not also tell the white house or the president's legal team all of what he said. >> new questionest about his conversation with robert hoo

are you confident he will left robert mueller complete the investigation? >> we have been hanging on the edge of our seats on that one for a long, long time. i don't know that i'm confident. i think if the president sees a threat, i think there's a distinct possibility that he might try to fire mueller. i think we need to keep the public pressure up on him to make sure that he doesn't. i think comments like senator graham made a couple months back now, basically saying to do that would be an impeachable offense. let him know that obstructing with this investigation to that level would be met with bipartisan condemnation, it is crucially important to stop the president from ending the investigation. >> how important is the testimony of the white house counsel, don mcgahn, to the mueller investigation team, he spent 30 hours answering their questions. >> obviously we don't know because we don't know what he said. 30 hours is a long time, but we're not sure exactly what was said. i think the michael cohen information, what michael cohen said to robert mueller,

but she did imply she has already begin it to robert mueller. so our big question is, is this bluster or is omarosa the smoking gun? joining me now nbc news white house correspondent kelly o'donnell, nbc news intelligence and national security reporter ken dilanian, white house reporter for "the washington post" ashley parker, senior reporter for "vanity fair" emily jane fox. emily and ashley are msnbc contributors. she also released a new audiotape with lara trump. she has released a statement. i want to read that. from the beginning of my father-in-law's campaign omarosa was welcome into our family as a trusted friend. on the women for trump tour, including omarosa, we formed a sisterhood bond that is unlike any i have experienced in my life. we toured together, laughed together, and worked really hard towards a common goal. we never would have imagined one of our own was secretly recording all of our private conversations. back to the wikileaks stuff. ken, i want to start with you. this is an explosive, explosive claim from omarosa that the p

. >> robert stone robert mueller anything, defying a subpoena to testify. >> it is a weak precedent at best and the supreme court has the last word. >> and natalie allgna michael 1 avenatti on his next move. >> when they go low, i say we hit harder. >> whether i can challenge trump. >> here it is saturday, august 11th, the year of the weird, 2018. >> omarosa is out with a book with a big reveal that trump is a racist. which begs the question, what is the opposite of breaking news? >> that's where we're going to start this morning with omarosa, the original reality show villain doing exactly what you would expect she would do. with me this morning, andy glaw from princeton, and a writer from salon.com. christina grier is an author. and baritende thurston is an author. i want to begin with what exactly omarosa is alleging in this memoir. the former white house aide and "apprentice" contestant saying in the book president trump is, quote, racist, and he uses the "n" word. she writes, "using the "n" word was not just the way he talks, but more disturbing it was how he thought of me and afr