well short time ago we also spoke to you correspondent ali rudi who is in the stadium in moscow to watch the final i asked him to describe the atmosphere there as an intense rainstorm began just as the game was ending. dramatic end to the tournament in terms of the elements. fitting for the occasion really and indeed what was going on on the pitch it was the croatian fans making most of the noise in the ground the creation fans and the neutrals supporting crozier in this game this country of just four for a half million people brought so many people to this tournament and brought such great atmosphere to not just this fine with the semifinal as well a few days ago they really did bring it to life in style inside luzhniki stadium behind me tonight so we have to give them a lot of credit for that however you also have to give the french team a lot of credit for coping with this fear coping with the kind of hostile nature of the crowd inside the stadium and playing their game and being cool and calm and collected and being clinical with their chances as well and you could see with the celeb

and i of course watched the match on television but correspondent eileen rudi was in moscow and he joins us now from there so ali we know that a major rainstorm began right as the final ended but from what we've been hearing it doesn't seem to have dampened the excitement tell us about the atmosphere. yeah indeed a dramatic end to the tournament in terms of the elements. fitting for the occasion really and indeed what was going on on the pitch it was the croatian fans making most of the noise in the ground the creation fans and the neutrals supporting crozier in this game this country of just four four half million people brought so many people to this tournament and brought such great atmosphere to not just this fine with the semifinal as well a few days ago they really did bring it to life in style inside luzhniki stadium behind me tonight so we have to give them a lot of credit for that however you also have to give the french team a lot of credit for coping with this fear coping with the kind of hostile nature of the crowd inside the stadium and playing their game and being cool and calm and collected and be

ali mistal. jill, let me start with you. a quote from the new york times that rudy giuliani is talking about. in response to the idea that the special prosecutor is looking at various public statements by the president, tweets and other things. he says if you are going to obstruct justice, you do it quietly. >> most kinds of obstruction is behind closed doors. but we live in a modern world where you can communicate easily through social media. and send messages by publicly announcing a pardon by a case that involves contempt of court. i will pardon you, you don't have to cooperate in the same way you can threaten a witness against you in the public media and it will count just as much as if you had done it behind closed doors. in this case, we have testimony that he did it behind closed doors and then repeated it because it didn't get through. we wanted it to happen and he did it again. he has been trying to obstruct this investigation from the very first day of it. done everything he could and partly public. who would have thought he would say to nbc lester holt, i did it because i wanted to