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Members that are democrats still in congress. they learned the play book. >> they understand from ken starr that a special counsel has to have public opinion with him and what theyre trying to do is destabilize this special counsel so he doesnt have public opinion with him. bob mueller is a hard guy to attack because hes so silent and so well respected. so, you attack everything else. and you kind of muddy the waters that way. they want to, you know, when he finally issues whatever he issues or ...

President can decide to object. if he doesnt object, the committee can just release the memo after five days. so it is only the president objects they need a full house vote. it is challenging here is the president could approve it with changes, but also could just do nothing and allow the committee as it stands today. >> it sounds like there may not be changes to your point there. gloria, you have a great column today about how donald trump is using blunt force against robert mueller, explain w...

>> so quickly back to one second, to ryans statements, he made three statements. he saids in about oversigt. and its not. i think we fairly discussed that this is not an oversight process. he said this is not an attack on the fbi. the director of the fbi says it is. he says its not about attacking mueller. but the president says it is. so its just not acceptable to anyone who disagree was that point of view to let it be out. >> we have to take a quick break. again, more news ahead. well be right...

Whereas i can guarantee you mueller has found a lot of information that trump knows nothing about if there is any politician who can pull off as a pr matter invoking the fifth amendment privilege against self-incrimination, it is president trump. and he has kind of set the agenda for that by attacking mueller over the last few months and saying there is a witch lunt and it is a bogus investigation. and he can go in front of the american people and he can say look, the supreme court has said sinc...

I agree completely with greg that its a very perilous situation for him. and in fact, i think hes in much more danger than president clinton was because when president clinton sat down we had already let him know about the dress, so there was no point in him trying to deny the relationship. and mueller whos run a very tight ship has found a lot of information that president trump knows nothing about. if theres anyone who can pull off -- any politician who can pull off as a pr matter invoking the...

After the firing of archbald cox, the judge issued an opinion in which he pointed out, its clear in american law that you cannot violate the regulation, one ari brought up, because you are president. so megan would presumably know this, and in addition to protecting himself, which i think is the more reasonable interpretation of this, he would also understand this wouldnt hold up and the three-week reads for attacking mueller, i would not be surprised if that ended up in a courtroom that the jud...

Are president. so megan would presumably know this, and in addition to protecting himself, which i think is the more reasonable interpretation of this, he would also understand this wouldnt hold up and the three-week reads for attacking mueller, i would not be surprised if that ended up in a courtroom that the judge would dismiss it as a frivolous. the worst thing the judge can say to a lawyer is you made an argument thats frivolous. >> one of the stunning things about the story, joy, is were ta...

Trumps g.o.p. >> i dont know that any democrat could say it better. >> republicans are also dealing with a lack of enthusiasm in their party. were seeing high numbers of enthusiasm with democrats and lower numbers with republicans. you need to put things out there to the base, the red meat, the going after -- attacking the fbi, attacking mueller, this memo. you need to do that to try to stoke them to get them going. and otherwise this is a big selection. >> theyre not exciting, theyre mortified,...

That he did it because of the russia investigation. donald trump in essence was in a way admitting to obstruction of justice on national television. now the question is whether that will be politically muddied by the effort to discredit comey. thats what the white houses strategy to get out of trumps own ignorance is all about. >> right. and the other point, maya and nick, that comes up so often is oh, donald trump wont criticize putin. hell criticize everyone but putin. i think this year amends...

We know, in the republican party. some republicans say stop attacking mueller. this guy has an impeccable record. other republicans say this is a witch hunt. this is a hoax, et cetera, et cetera. but the analysis that struck me is the argument that this could recast democrats as the true friends of law enforcement, not republicans, for a long time to come. how risky is this for the republican party right now to continue these sustained attacks on mueller? >> i think its risky for congressional r...