but "they" are buying them to protect their secrets?!?! hi bill. if that is your real name. it's william actually. hmph! affordable, fast fedex ground. the. the president expecting to be exonerated in the russia swrerks expecting it soon and in writing. this isocr÷ new reporting toni. sara, why is the president suddenly feeling so optimistic. >> he's feeling less agitated. he is telling his friends and allies that he expects to get a letter of exoneration from roy moore and the team. this is because his lawyers have painted an optimistic time line for the investigation. they expect it to wrap up early in the year, and the president

to be cleared. other lawyers involved in this investigation are much more skeptical saying there's little indication saying mueller is wrapping up his work. a key tipping point of all of this could be this week. that's when mueller and his team is supposed to sit down with the president's lawyers and the lawyers want to get a sense of where is the investigation going. is there anything else we need to close this? the concern is if the meeting doesn't go the way the president wants, there could be problems. >> that's the rub. what if the president doesn't get what he wants? is there concern he might be frustrated with the outcome. >> absolutely. he might be more frustrated than he was initially because he hoped to be exonerated and the deadline has shifted a number of times and maybe shifted again. one person familiar with the conversations predicted the president could have a meltdown, he could do something rash, he might try to fire mueller or others overseeing the

investigation. it was not too long ago, just yesterday, the president insisted that was not a consideration. but we've seen his political advisors out there taking a much sharper tone about the investigation, that could be a signal of what to come. >> it's his legal team, tie cob, his lawyer inside the white house that says he thinks this investigation could be wrapping you. >> that's right. and there are other lawyers on the president's legal team, they seemed to have convinced the president that things are wrapping up. that he doesn't have anything to worry about. it's worth noting he hasn't known ty cobb that long, but they've struck up a rapport and the president does trust him and his assessment of the situation. that's why you see him talking to his friends and allies about being cleared in the investigation and being cleared in writing. which is extremely unusual,

especially ifgs[bp roy moobert decided to close the investigation. >> thank you sara. let's get more from david axle rod and david gergen. david gergen, the fact that president trump thinks the@bg special counsel, roy moore rob is going to write a paper exonerating him, is that how these things work? >> not ordinarily. we're talking about a president here. so if, in fact, mueller does exonerate him, i think the president would be entitled to ask for a letter, something that would clear his name. but i think it's premature to go too far down the path. i don't know what the white house possibly knows that the president is headed for exoneration, this is all about to come to an end. we may hear a different stories after the white house lawyers go

see mr. mueller later this week. >> may be legally premature and people around the president might be setting these expectations that he'll be cleared of all wrong doing, especially given when he gets disappointed when he know how he acts. >> i think one of the questions is, are they managing the president or are they imparting -- are they imparting facts to him. you know right after the indictment of flynn, and this was true after the manafort indictment as well, he -- he loses control in those periods and becomes very, very angry. we know that and he lashes out. and so my sense is that the lawyers are trying as much to manage the president as they are to manage events. but at some point, you know, the rubber hits the road.

if they come back from the -- if they come back from the counsel's office with bad news, who knows how the president will react. the other issue here is if they are about the business of raising expectations that there's going to be some letter of exoneration and it isn't forthcoming, does it add to the drum beat that we see on the right just hammering mueller and the investigation as politically motivated. >> managing the president, rather than informing him in some case, whold whose job should it be within the white house? his lawyers to steer him back to reality? >> i think it's a combination of his lawyers and the chief of staff, john kelly, the chief of staff is the single most important advisor for the president. has to deliver the bad news as well as the good news. there's one thing inconsistent, though. if they have any confidence that the president is going to be "( exonerated. i think they would call off the

attacks by fox and some of the allies of the white house which discredited mueller if they think they're going to get away from all of this with a letter of exoneration, it seems they'd call the dogs off. >> it gets to the issue the president&c is the most importa person in how he deals with this message that he is delivering. if he believes that he did nothing wrong, you know, who's to tell him otherwise? >> well, no. i think that's -- that's a real -- a real problem. you know, one thing that seems very clear is there's an impe tous and it comes from the president to try and shut all of this down. we know he's talked to members of congress about it, you've seen the growing momentum on the republican side, at least in the house, to try and shut this investigation down. he wants to get this behind him. i suspect the republicans would love to get it behind him as

well because this is not an issue they want hanging over the 2018 e election. >> i want to ask you about the president's national security speech dd je9ñ he not only tried to define what the administration will do in the future but did back looking as well where he criticized the foreign policies of the past administrations. he went after the george w. and obama administration. i must say, the president is entitled to crow some about the economy. he inherited a good, growing economy, but things happened and donald trump made that a feature of his speech today. speech about foreign policy itself had echos of i naug recall address. he named china as the rivals we're competing against, we have to do this and that because they're coming at us, they have

the discipline, we have to pull ourselves together. that's a far cry from the more positive how do we partner with the world, work with others to really make a difference on climate, for example. no mention of climate in this. so;1wthe speech in that sense i consistent with what trump has been thinking and saying, but i think it's going to -- i don't think it's going to be well greeted in foreign capitols. >> there's one line that jumped out, i'm curious about your-zun take, he said a nation that's not proud of its history cannot be confident in its future. now some people are looking at this as some kind of reference of what republicans call president obama's apology tour or maybe he's talking about confederate statues and the discussion there. how did you see that line? >> i think the first is probably what he was referencing. but a strong confident nation

also acknowledges past mistakes. president obama and obviously i worked with him, i think felt strongly about america's leadership roll in the world and that america was a guarantor of stability in the world and a guarantor of the stability of global institutions. >> david gergen, david axlerod great to have you with us. thanks, gentlemen. break news about the possibly time line of the mueller investigation. the president expecting to wrap this up soon but new reporting from "the washington post" says not even close. the latest on the deadly train derailment in washington state. a horrifying site. what we know next. inking. even your toaster is thinking. honey, clive owen's in our kitchen. i'm leaving. oh never mind, he's leaving. but what if a business could turn all that thinking... thinking... endless thinking into doing? to make better decisions. make a difference. make the future. not next week while you think about it a little more. but right now.

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robert mueller and his team have tens of thousands of trump transition e-mails as part of the russia investigation. the president says he thinks it's quote pretty sad he got the e-mails. lawyers say they were unlawfully obtained. mueller's spokesman says that's not true. as sarah murray has been reporting, the president thinks to be exonerated and soon and the special counsel is going to write him a letter, and again this is going to happen soon. mueller and his team haven't given any indication the investigation is in the final stages and tonight new reporting from "the washington post," said it could last at least another year. and members of the mueller team

much of 2018 at the minimum. joining me now, jason miller, jen sake, and mark hurtling. jason miller, to one of the problems sarah murray was reporting on. he thinks the investigation is going to be over soon. he thinks he is getting a letter soon that he is cleared in the investigation, yet "the washington post" reports it's going to go on for another year. how much of a problem is that? >> i don't think it's a problem. because i don't think that president trump did anything wrong. so whether this goes another couple weeks or another year i don't think that's going to be an issue for him -- >> the issue is will he get upset? if it doesn't end soon as apparently his lawyers have told him it will, is that going to set him off? >> no, i think the american public is who is going to be

upset. because we have the booming economy and after a year, we have nothing to say the trump campaign did anything to include with a foreign government in the election. let's go to the transition team e-mails. i thought the purpose of this was to talk about the campaign colluding with a foreign entity we're talking about transition team e-mails. this is well after the campaign. so i think at a certain point here, look, even though i don't think this fundamentally changes anything to do with a broader investigation, but with some of the news we've seen lately with agents being dismissed or folks at the doj, whether it be the gentleman who went to hillary clinton's election night party or some of the different things like that, i think folks want to see the politicizing out of any investigation and after a year if there's nothing that say gs that the campaign or president trump did anything wrong, let's get moving. we have to go on with the country here. >> michael flynn was just

convicted of lying, admitted to lying about conversations that happened during the transition. so the transition legal ground for some people here. you brought up transition e-mails, you were the communication director for the transition team. did you have any expectation of private in your e-mails. according to the deputy counsel a you and your counsel signed an agreement that said these e-mails were subject to monitoring and there was no expectation of privacy. >> i assume anything that goes n into e-mails is going to be public. whether or not that's transition team or working in the official government or anything else. so i'll let the lawyers go and argue on that one. going back to my initial point, if this was supposedly about the campaign, including with a foreign entity, at a certain point the american public is realizes this is not what this is about. >> we don't know because the investigation is still going on. we have yet to hear from robert mueller and the team what's

going on. jen, you also worked a transition. jason miller told us he had no expectation of privacy. assume you didn't have any expectation of privacy in the campaign you worked on, why make this argument if you're part of the trump transition team, is this just politics to muddy the waters? >>, of course, it's politics. i remember our lawyers saying, all of your e-mails are going to go to a dot gof server. they're neither private or privileg privileged. i would guess that's what every team has been told since there was e-mail. there was there was an orchestrated attack to firing mueller. yes, president trump said he wasn't going to do that now, one thing we've learned is not to believe what he said, what everybody should be worried about is if he takeszxr+ steps fire mueller when congress is out of session. members of congress won't be

here, the judiciary won't be here. >> one thing i don't understand is the democrats saying the president is going to fire robert mueller. jackie spear and adam schiff, saying they see signs of it. the president said he's not going to do that. and richard#ej$ bloom um entt. >> it may be. and that's a fair point. it may be. i don't think we're out of the woods in him never firing mueller. so i think we need to be wary of that. but it is certainly possible that he knows that in a year from now, six months from now, whenever they're done with the investigation, you mentioned "the washington post" reporting that he's going to be in a place where democrats control the house, he may be at risk of impeachment, he needs to get his

partners and allies, an argument on his behalf. >> the president used an interesting phrase there about these transition e-mails. he said he thinks it's sad somehow that the special counsel has now possession of these e-mails. you were in the military for a long time, you were a government employee for a very, very long time. do you think it's sad that these government e-mails are now in the hands of the special counsel. >> i don't. i think it's sad he and the team didn't understand the rules they were under when they were using these accounts. jason was right, no matter what kind of account you're on, expect your e-mails to get out if you're a high level official. but if you're on a dot gov or dot mil, some it guy comes in and says here's what you can expect. you have to ensure that these e-mails are clean and work related and don't do personal stuff on it.

i'll be honest, i was afraid to e-mail my wife on mym machine a times picking up a gallon of milk at work. it's interesting because if stuff, yo understand the ethical and moral requirements.jqo for using busi e-mails for business events. when you're in the government or military, you know you have to be professional when dealing with engagements on the net works or in person. so the word sad doesn't apply. it goes into this organization called the nara, the national archive organization, they keep them for months at a time to make sure history is recorded and they can go back specifically to these things. >> from your lips, general, to anyone who might have a dot gov

or dot mill e-mail address what would your message be. >> do business, be professional and make sure you know anybody is going to see those because they are the business of government and it should be transparent. >> all right. great to have you all with us. thank you very much. have a great holiday if i don't see you again. the latest on the deadly train derailment in washington state. what we know from the scene next. even love it. and today, you can do things you never could before. you're working in millions of places at once with iot sensors. analyzing social data on the cloud to create new designs. and using blockchain to help prevent fraud. so get back to it and do the best work of your life. you're more than just a bathroom disease..ud. you're a life of unpredictable symptoms. crohn's, you've tried to own us. but now it's our turn to take control with stelara®

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of these cars kwusing jaws of life, using saws and at times using cranes just peek into the train cars. passengers say the crash was chaotic, they were traveling 70 to 80 miles per hour then suddenly the cars were flying, they were flying. as far as what it felt like for the con ducters you can hear it in the voices as they made that first 911 call. >> amtrak, emergency, emergency. we are on the ground. we were coming around the corner to take the bridge over i-5 and we went on the ground. >> okay. are you -- is everybody okay? >> i'm still figuring that out. we have cars everywhere, and down onto the highway. >> reporter: and what you're looking here is the l.e.d. lights of what is now a sad message. the drivers who are going

through these train tracks, this is a new train line, this was a $181 million retro fit to let the amtrak trains move more quickly. the signs warning passengers this is just changed as of today, 14 new lines. yf drivers to be careful but then this train crash happened somehow. >> you've been in touch with the hospital where many are being treated. what can you tell us about their condition tonight. >> reporter: the hospital we've been speaking with, four to five cj from the train crash. it's the army medical center and this particular hospital has a mix of civilian and combat physicians. so the emergency room went into a triage. 19 patients did arrive and a lot of these doctors, some who did see combat were prepared and working on the patients. 12 of them were admitted, the

great majority of them are in serious condition. the rest of them, john, just a few of them are in fair condition. they say as far as the injuries, generally fractures and broken bones. thanks so much. this afternoon, president trump started a speech on national security with a few comments about the accident. >> let me begin by expressing our deepest sympathies and most heartfelt prayers for the victims of the train derailment in washington state. we are closely watching the co local authorities. it is all the more reason we must immediately start fixing the infrastructure of the united states. keeping him honest, this â; recommended cutting infrastructure by

$55 billion. in a keeping them honest report we called high speed rail boondoggle, he joins me now. what can you tell us. >> reporter: our focus of the reporting this was sold as high speed rail, but it was getting slow trains to move a little faster. that's what this trainoíq!udid. this brand new line was rerouted around a congestion area in taco ma, which got it off the tracks of freight trains and put it on a more straight route. speed does appear to be a factor here, but this is a brand new stretch of track, it's refurbished track that would take about 10 minutes off the total time between seattle in portland and it just started today. >> just 10 minutes, these additional costs and improvements, it was a

ten-minute difference. >> yes. this was part of a bigger project, $800 million to shave 10 minutes off of this trip. this was the last portion of it. it was a $180 million portion of it. in fact, the engine that was on i-5 is part of the purchase. that's a brand new diesel electric locomotive that is now trashed on the highway. but it was never about high speed trains. this was not a high speed track that we think about with high speed trains. it wasn't a brand new track. the type they have in europe or japan. this is what the u.s. has been doing with the trains, just8]ñ trying to get the old trains to move a little quicker. e been moving too fast in the turn which it made. it was supposedly only allowed to go about miles per hour there, but this train appeared to be going a lot faster based

on the witnesses thaty]« we havn the scene. >> there are a lot of unanswered questions here, and obviously beginning. this was the inaugural journey, you would think there would be& test after test after test before sending passengers down this rail. >> apparently there was test after test after test. but what kind of tests did take place, and also what kind of ñ take place? was this a question of whether or not the óúñengineer, who was running the train, was familiar with all the warningfny signs, î]j cf to about 80 miles per hour, which was the maximum speed. it's going to be a big investigation. we don't know if there was something else involved. >> thank you for your reporting. we have breaking news about how long the mueller investigation could last and it's not exactly what the president is expecting. ?

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new reporting tonight from "the washington post" says robert mueller's russian investigationw0har could go on

least through 2018. that is not what the president is+5)jt as sarah murray reported he's under the impression this will all end soon and he's going to get some kind of exoneration letter. there's no indication that's the case. there's been conversation over the last few weeks over>t credibility of the special counsel's team and of robert mueller himself. many of those claims fall apart when you look at his background, politics and track report. preet bharara joins mem1b now t discuss. the fact of the matter is that robert mueller is a life-long republican. so for republicans to now paint him as some liberal renegade, that doesn't hold water, does it. >> no, it would seem not to. he's not only a life long support his whole term.

both democrats and republicans together decided the person they wanted to be in the job for another two years was robert mueller and rather than president obama, with republican support, appointing a new person to the job they changed the law to allow for a two-year additional term by robert mueller. so i think a lot of these :/ casting don't make sense. >> i want to read something!=$ñ wrote. you said robert mueller's att k logs. but i would caution he's not your savior, just a law man. respect his findings whatever they are. the bottom line you are essentially arguing that robert mueller is apolitical. >> there's nothing in his past or background, notwithstanding what some are trying to cast aspersions on him. to suggest he's in any way

partisan, he was the fbi director hailed by being above board, for 12 years. he served his country in the military. he earned honors for risking his own personal safety. this is not to say any person, whether an attorney general or fbi director should be put on a pedestal or some kind of god, it's to say if you think about what his history has been and why he had the reputation he had and why he had so mumuch bipart support it's because he's conducted himself in an upstanding way. >> jim jordan said top fbi officials should be subpoenaed over the claims of bias against president trump. there's a lot of republicans who say theyi=+ think this investigation has been tainted. but even if there was no bias in terms of the way these people

approach their jobs, how does the perception matter in an investigation like this. >> they matter when there's a lot of attention being paid to investigations. there's a common phrase when people talk about the law, not only that justice must be done it must be seen to be done. so one thing we should be happy about, and it's gotten lost in the shuffle a little bit, as soon as bob mueller and his team found out about the texts, even though people are permitted to have personal opinions and political opinions, this fbi agent was removed from the investigation. so, in fact, the evidence shows that bob mueller, i think, is paying attention to perception and is staying below the radar, in other words not making comments on his own about the case. but when he2rñ saw something th would be perceived badly and could be perceived as being a har bin ger of bias, that person was removed. >> as for robert mueller himself do you think at this point, as

we sit here christmas, that the president would go as far as to fire him? over the weekend the president said he was not going to do it. >> i think the president has different thoughts about a lot of different things depending on what day of the week it is. there are many people that he expressed confidence in and then at some point later said he wanted them gone. i don't think anyone's squlobjo safe. you go by common sense and assessment of the personality of the leader, and the track record shows if the president gets upset or angry he'll think of waysc[9gç to get rid of somebod. he did it with james comey and report that is he thought about it with jeff sessions. >> and with rod rosenstein, but they could fall into the same category. thank you for your time. up next why sarah palin

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former vice president shl nominee sarah palin called police over the weekend and her 28-year-old son ended up in jail. according to investigators a family feud led to serious charges. randy kaye joins me with more. >> reporter: here's what we know based on the police documents we've been able to obtain. track palin has been charged with first degree burglary, a flown and also assault and criminal mischief, misdemeanors. this results from a situation at their home in alaska on saturday. according to the officer's affidavit it was sara palin herself who told police her son quoting here, freaking out and on some kind of medication. when police arrived they said todd palin had a bloody face.

and track palin started yelling at them from the porch insisting they lay their guns down. at onekbyóx point documents sho track palin crawled through the window onto the garage. >> how is it officers were able to arrest him. >> reporter: after about 10 or 15 minutes the officers convinced him to come oud and talk with him. they handcuffed him at that moment and detained him outside incident. police say track told them he had a few beers-> do we know what causedzh3ñ t fight with his father? >> reporter: it's a bit complicated. according to police track told them he and his dad had a disagreement about a vehicle. track told police he saw his dad pointing a gun at him. once he got inside the house, track got the gun away from his dad, he told police he put his dad on the ground and hit him in

the head. todd palin said he told police track wanted to get the truck and he told him not to do come because his son had been medication. todd said track said he was going to come anyway and, quote, beat his ass. >> this was not the first time that track palin has been in trouble. in fact, the whole family had issues before. >> reporter: yeah we 'seen this before, absolutely. in 2016 track palin was arrested on domestic violence charges./8r back in 2014, the whole family was involved in a crazy drunken brawl it happened at a parity on todd's 50th birthday. police say responded to a report of a verbal and physical altercation. track palin was, according to police, heavily intoxicated. and bristol had apparently got into a fistfight with a guy.

no charges were filed. >> serious issues obviously at 7t we hope they get whatev help they need. now a 360 follow. matthew peterson has withdrawn his nomination after not being able to answer basic questions. he said i had hoped that myadcñ nearly two decades of public service would carry more weight than my worst two minutes on television. here is some of the jaw dropping exchange he had with republican senator john kennedy. >> have you tried a jury trial? >> i have not. >> civil? >> no. >> criminal? >> no. >> bench? >> no. >> state or federal court? >> i have not. >> have you ever taken a deposition? >> i was involved in taking depositions when i was

associate. when i first came out of law school, but that was -- >> how many depositions? >> i would -- i'd be struggling to remember. >> less than ten? >> yes. >> less than five? >> probably somewhere in that range. >> have you ever tried to take a deposition by yourself? >> i believe no. >> have you ever argued a motion in state court? >> i have not. >> have you ever argued a motion in federal court? >> no. >> so here is how senator kennedy summed it up&kkç this morning. >> he's never been in a courtroom before, and no disrespect, but just because you -- you've seen "my cousin vinny" you're not qualified to a judge. upnext serious stuff, a cnn

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doses of insulin spoiling in a powerless fridge. when i went back a month later, the transmission tower that nearly crushed them inside their home was back up. wow, that's a good sign. look at that. they got it back up. how are you? oh! folks at the va had seen our story and sent help. miguel was resting and deanna's spirits were high. "i'm going to keep fighting," she said, and then pointed up as they put a flag on top of the power, but just before thanksgiving, her hope turned to grief, and she wept over the flag atop miguel's coffin. the aftermath was just too much for him, but will he be counted as a victim of hurricane maria? after reporting by cnn and others sparked an official review, the fatality number could jump from 63 to over 1,000, but that is just one horrible puzzle to solve here. how the hell did you get this contract? whitefish, the tiny company

promised $300 million to help fix the grid was fired just weeks into the job. the head of the island's power authority quit amid the scandal, and now as the army corps of engineers struggles through jungle terrain, a third of the island remains in the dark. about 20,000 blue roof tarps have been installed but another 50,000 are waiting. but puerto rico is just one of dozens of disaster zones, from the caribbean to california. nearly 5 million americans have filed for federal aid in just the last few months, and among those begging for help is the guy in charge of helping. >> i haven't even been here six months yet, and what i hope to do is inform americans about how complex this mission is. it might be a time to sit back and say, are we in charge of too much? >> reporter: after a career as an emergency manager in georgia and alabama, brock long was tapped by president trump right before one of the most destructive summers in american history, but he's been there long enough to say that fema is

broke and the system is broken. many of his 19,000 personnel have worked such long hours, they've hit a pay gap and will have to give back overtime. what does that do for morale? are there people who are essentially working for free? >> we've got to fix that problem, and i've been very vocal, you know, within congress. i mean, you know, yeah, it impacts morale. we cannot do this alone. any time fema is the first, you know, the first responder and the primary responder, like we were in puerto rico, it's never an ideal situation, but i do believe, for example, in puerto rico, that we kept that island complete and total collapse. >> you think so? >> i do. >> reporter: but things are so dire there now, 10% of the island has evacuated to florida. stephanie and victoria are among the 250,000 puerto ricans who fled so far. they're grateful to miami's st. thomas university for taking them in, but they're worried about an entire future in flux. do you feel like americans?

on that island? do you feel like second-class americans? >> it's like we felt -- we feel we aren't a priority, you know. >> reporter: right. >> we aren't being taken the care we deserve to be taken on the island. >> and we need the help. we are really needing the help. >> reporter: so when president trump goes to puerto rico, for example, and throws paper towels to storm survivors, what sort of message does that send and how are you graded based on that? >> you know what, president trump has been incredibly supportive of emergency management. at one point, we were having day-to-day conversations with the white house, and he is highly involved. he calls me directly. he's very engaged. his message to me is help people. and expedite the processes to do so. people are excited and asking, hey, what about me back here? and he picks it up, he throws it, and the media captured it

and can spin that story any way they want, but i was in the room. he genuinely cares about the people in puerto rico, about the people in california, about the americans in texas, in florida as well. >> so, bill, where do things stand in puerto rico in terms of restoring power to the island? >> it's still a tough slog. they've actually made some progress. the governor predicted 95% would be back up by this date. they missed that deadline. now it's about two-thirds of the island has power now, but it's one of those reminders that this infrastructure before the storm was so creaky and antiquated and obsolete that the double punch of irma and then maria just laid waste to this whole thing, and the terrain there is so rough. it's those mountains, the jungles there. and so now the army corps of engineers has picked up the slack that was created when whitefish was fired. they've doubled some of the contracts with the other more established firms trying to get it up. but you know, if you spent a day

or two without power in the house, you know the discomfort that it is. imagine three months. >> so much work to do. bill weir, thank you so much. thank you so much for watching "360." i'm john berman. time now to hand it over to don lemon. "cnn tonight" starts right now. this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. breaking news. a deadly amtrak derailment in washington state sending train cars full of terrified passengers crashing off an overpass and onto an interstate below. officials say at least three people are dead and 100 injured, but they fear the toll is going to go higher. 77 passengers and 7 crew members were on board the train which was making its first regular trip along a new route. >> we were coming around the corner to take the bridge over i-5 there, right north in nisqually and went on the ground. >> is everybody okay? >> i'm still trying to figure