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Was recommended by the career ethics team and looked at it, they said you need to do this. i agree with pete. the president is thinking out loud on twitter. but i also agree with alberto gonsalves, it doesnt help. thats the challenge. >> pete: someone as strong as sessions. >> i dont know if hes been as strong as the president wants. i think thats actually what the problem is that he hasnt been the attack dog that the president wanted. i dont think it has that much to do with russian recusal. i ...

Not recused himself and was in a position to say, you know, im ending the mueller investigation and opening another investigation of hillary clinton. thats basically it. and im -- >> thats a lap dog meet attack dog. >> exactly. find the real collusion. >> but to your point he has recused himself related to everything from the 2016 election. its not just the russia stuff. its anything related to hillary. on the two things the president cares the most about, he cant be involved. the funny thing is...

Political purposes. so far theres been no evidence to suggest thats been the case at all. both brennan and clapper reject the claims, saying the informant was only used to determine the role of russia in the campaigns. great to have both of you, with us on set. mara, the president has used the word spy or spygate in some version 24 times in nearly 15 tweets. why do you think hes insisting -- >> without getting into his head, i dontening we need to. discredit the probe. giuliani said it himself t...

2300 miles away from the kay ols of washington. >> here, all we can do is vote for someone hoping they can do something there. >> reporter: do you think he is a guy who can do that? >> i think he is, yes. >> reporter: her congressman, devin nunes. these registered republicans squarely in his corner, especially when hes an attack dog for trump. >> we have no evidence of collusion. weve turned up nothing. >> i like it that he does stick up for the president. i mean the president is our leader whet...

Position to know exactly what those questions were. so, no, this will not bolster the witch hunt argument at all. >> after the presidents former attorney john dowd quit, mueller quote, he called it terroristic. he told the national law review people trusted each other, there were no misunderstanding. it was all conspiracy peddling that were seeing right now. part of trump and beggiulianisw strategy. >> hes out there as kind of an attack dog for the president, snarling against mueller saying hes ...

>> it sounds like hes being very candid and he would be in a position to know exactly what those questions were. so, no, this will not bolster the witch hunt argument at all. >> after the presidents former attorney john dowd quit, mueller he called it terrific. he told the national law review people trusted each other, there were no misunderstanding. it was all conspiracy peddling that were seeing right now. part of trump and giulianis new strategy. to under mine the investigation. is that what ...

Now, the president was frustrated for a long time before he hired giuliani. he heard that, you know, he couldnt -- he wanted an attack dog to be on television. he was tired of the criticism that he couldnt find a big-name lawyer to come on the team. he hired rudy giuliani. in fact, he told one confidant that we quoted in one of our stories that, look, look at this. i finally have him. i have americas bleepin mayor, like hes on board. he was very fired up about that. he likes the role out there, ...

Piece. >> thank you. >> you talk about how the white house is preparing a war footing with the mueller probe but beyond rudy giuliani who is out there as an attack dog with mixed results, what will that look like? is it what were hearing from the vice president calling for the mueller probe to wrap up? what other strategies will they use in the weeks ahead to put pressure on mueller? >> i think well see more of a public relations assault so well see the president talking about this. you saw vice...

Now, the president was frustrated for a long time before he hired giuliani. he heard that, you know, he couldnt -- he wanted an attack dog to be on television. he was tired of the criticism that he couldnt find a big-name lawyer to come on the team. he hired rudy giuliani. in fact, he told one confidant that we quoted in one of our stories that, look, look at this. i finally have him. i have americas bleepin mayor now, like hes on board. he was very fired up about that. he likes the role hes out...

Many things, stormy daniels information, iran, detainees and now this at&t/time warner thing. what is the scope of his job? the president has to be green lighting when he does these interviews. >> right. >> youve written about rudy giuliani. what do you make of this? >> i cant remember trump ever having to clean up so many messes for an aide. this morning, he tweeted about it. this cant go on much longer. its obvious that trump has affection for rudy giuliani but this is a pattern now, almost a ...