gary o'donoghue is in the washington. what is the latest? the president has been out in social media, defending his eldest son in vigorous terms, saying he did a good job in his interview last night with an american network, where he effectively defended what he had done during the campaign but there was a slight glimmer of regret and he said he may have done things a little differently, knowing what he knew now but effectively they are fighting a rearguard action now because this is the first indication ofa because this is the first indication of a willingness on the part of people in the inner circle of the campaign to take a meeting with someone campaign to take a meeting with someone they believed at the time was somehow connected to the kremlin, to the russian government, paddling supposedly negative information about their opponent. it didn't transpire like that will turn out like that, i don't think anyone really thinks it turned out like that at all, but it was the willingness, i think, that at all, but it was the willingness, ithink