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President trump and his minions are following a two track strategy. the president tries to stay above things, im exonerated. im not going to fire mueller. they have the second track, if things do go to hell for him, if he gets nailed by mueller, they can discredit it. i dont think theyll bring the public fully over to their side, they understand that, if they can sow enough doubt, they can perhaps get 40% of the public to think it was tainted from the beginning. i think its working better than w...

Firing robert mueller. his answer was no, im not. theyre discrediting mueller and his team. is that even better than firing him? >> i think its part of the same thing. i think if trump was allowed to be trump, he would have fired him ages ago. and i think thats a looming possibility. but i think theyve convinced him by attacking mueller in any way that they can, that maybe theyll diminish his effectiveness, maybe hell go away. >> but, john, how can you attack him and say i expect him to be exone...

Trump is not going after mueller, and let them reign in mueller. >> im very worried about him because its congresss job to hold president trump accountable. he can fire his attorney general and put someone else in there whos going to fire robert mueller, just what president nixon did in the saturday night massacre. we have al franken sidelined, which i think is a travesty, we have our real mess on our hands. i would not say robert mueller is out of the woods at this point in time. president trum...

Believe is not going to matter, right? because eventually youre going to have the e-mails, the lies, whatever. so this is a way for the trump team i think is a little panicked about what mueller has, trying to create enough exhaustion is what i would call it to make us not care what mueller comes up with. >> trump has to raise questions, right? among those who are mainstream or in the middle. on some level he seems to be doing that. john cornyn, number two gop senator is saying he has doubts abo...

Russias election meddling in his formal speech, but it is referenced in the written version of his policy, despite reports that the president still doesnt believe moscow interfered in the 2016 presidential election. in the russia probe, house investigator have said interviewing more key witnesses today, including the british publicist who organized that trump tower meeting back in 2016 when donald trump jr. and others from the campaign expected to get russian dirt on hillary clinton. sources tel...

Optimistic view of muellers timeline. they believe the president is going to be cleared, likely early in the new year. but there are others who are close to this investigation, other lawyers who are involved in it, who view that timeline with a lot of skepticism and say that mueller appears to be ramping up more than anything else. so trumps allies, trumps friends worry if they blow through this timeline, its going to irritate, its going to infuriate the president, and that he could do something...

But when you consider and put this in perspective in relation to the number of people diagnose of opioids or automobile accidents, for example, in comparison to the relatively low level of casualties from these kind of attacks, it makes you wonder about putting hyperventilation in context. >> yeah, so you talked about the men and women of the fbi who were working on this and worked tirelessly on these situations and other things. and remember last week, the president criticized him. the presiden...

Men and women of the fbi who were working on this and worked tirelessly on these situations and other things. and remember last week, the president criticized him. the president and his aides have been relentless trying to discredit robert mueller. right-wing media is on the attack. and just last week, we saw republican lawmakers attacking mueller at the donald trump jr. testimony. is this a strategy to undermine whats going on here? the mueller investigation? >> i think it is. first of all, i t...

Mueller will get to that point if he is not already there. that is what you call a coverup and obstruction of justice. and at that point, you have a very serious criminal case going. we have a very serious case going of how do we protect our american democracy, our electoral process. all of these things tie together. it is about power. it is about the president remaining in power so the republicans can have their repeal of the affordable care act. toss 24 million people off of health care. not f...

Issue, the conduct of the prosecutors the issue, making the conduct of everyone the issue except the president of the united states and those around him including those who have pleaded guilty already. >> ive seen differing opinions about the real purpose of this anti-mueller rhetoric. you know, you see some people say this is about goating trump to fire mueller. others saying this is impea impeachment politics, mueller will find something damaging, that impeachment proceedings will begin and at...