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Someone to fire mueller and thats a really big concern. we need to figure out a way to make congress an independent of the justice department so that the mueller investigation and the information within the mueller investigation is protected. >> there was some suggesting that could be the presidents new strategy for 2018 in the russia probe. ashley very quickly, what might that new strategy for president trump be in 2018? >> so far recently weve seen the president himself be quite calm when it c...

Someone republicans in washington wanted to step aside, but i think that the telling thing from alabama is that trumps own approval rating was fairly split in the polling at 48-47. this is a state he won last year by roughly 30 points. if there are any political implications, its even in strong republican strongholds, trump is increasingly unpopular and that will be very concerning for republicans moving ahead in midterm elections. >> a lot of republicans are growing concerned about the mueller ...

Obscene. and we need a revolution in the way we treat women at the workforce from the bottom on up. >> i want to ask you about the russia investigation. take a listen to what your colleague, the top democrat on the house intelligent senate committee, mark warren, said about the special counsel investigation. >> any attempt by this president to remove special counsel mueller from this position, or to pardon key witnesses in any effort to shield them from accountability or shut down the investigat...

We need a revolution in the way we treat women at the workforce from the bottom on up. >> i want to ask you about the russia investigation. take a listen to what your colleague, the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee, mark warner of " virginia said about the special counsel investigation. >> any attempt by this president to remove special counsel mueller from his position or to pardon key witnesses and any effort to shield them from accountability or shut down the investigation wo...

Fbi or we need to have a legitimate investigation of those investigating all of these very important cases. dream to what you make of the cases and mccabe is to retire soon. if you tired of the heat from the president and republicans on capitol hill? >> he is living the american dream can retire with full benefits are in a schedule. thats what i want to do and im sure thats what any of us want to do, not work beyond the point we have to appear to just so happens he is 90 days left until he is el...

You were worried about, including removing robert mueller. whats something that could be donor implemented here that secures robert mueller continuation in this position? >> well, i think that the members of congress of both parties ought to make it very clear to president trump that if he does anything to interfere with the mueller investigation, he is going to immediately be removed from office. and that message needs to come from the republicans as well as the democrats. this is not in the in...

Have legislation. they have been quiet on it. the president is in an interesting position t. white house said mueller would be done by thanksgiving, christmas, early next year. this is an effort by the presidents lawyers to keep him at bay and attacking mueller and firing mueller. so the interesting question which warner is sort of heading towards is what will happen when the president realizes mueller is not going to clear his name. we have to remember that mueller was appointed because comey w...

Ken starr, when you have a newt gingrich that bob muellers credentials are impektabccable a few months ago, it shows you how frightened everyones gotten, and thats why the goal of delegitimizing the special counsel. >> this is an existential crisis for the president. criminal trials matter, attacking mueller is a legal strategy in some sense, because as you point out, there are criminal trials that we look out. but its about what happens in 2018. if you look down the road a year from now, the qu...

Noise is animated by considerable fear that members of the trump family, a son or a son in law and others are in big trouble. if we just keep our focus on that and mueller comes up with a case, and it doesnt implicate trump but others, that is where the focus will be at this moment. its important and noisy, in the end, as long as the -- this suggests to me that the white house is much more panicked than not panicked. about what they think mueller has. >> panicked, but very clever. >> its clever....

That was pretty sad. >> lawyers. lawyers for his transition team about muellers team had to push back saying they didnt do anything wrong. what matters more? muellers in the right or he was forced to issue a statement, as if he had maybe done something wrong? >> i think the statement was important, i think it did shut down the legal argument, as david gergen just said. no one believes there was a strong legal argument. i served on a transition, the idea that my ptt.gov e-mail was mine is somewha...