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Publicly denigrate the head of the fbi, the very popular inside the fbi director, i should add, that will really destroy his ability to lead a department that was already hurt by his unwillingness to defend them against the presidents attacks. thats his credibility problem. on the criminal side, this could actually bring him into the obstruction of justice inquiry that we know robert mueller is conducting. all you have to do to be charged with obstruction of justice is to enter into a conspiracy...

Like everyone else. when there are individuals in the mueller process that are blatantly political, is right for mueller be able to fire those and examine any other individual and appropriate for congress to do the same. the president isnt saying he will fire mueller. he is saying lets have a fair process. thats not too high a bar to ask for. >> bill: do you think bob mueller has a credibility problem? >> he is trying to clean up a credibility problem by firing some individuals on his team that ...

Earlier on "americas newsroom." >> he is trying to clean up a credibility problem by firing some individuals on his team that had a political bias of the president. he can stay out of the media, avoiding leaks and making sure everybody on his team treats everyone fair. >> laura: jays rosen live in our nations capital. what are you learning today about these interrogations? >> deputy f.b.i. director andrew mccabe, the number two-man at the f.b.i. faced seven hours of questioning behind closed doo...

Or could be otherwise connected to. >> you intend to recuse yourself from both the clinton e-mail investigation and any matters involving the clinton foundation if there are any? >> yes. >> so two questions for you, michael schmidt. one, he seems to be, again, tangled in the web of his own testimony before congress. the guy should really -- his new years resolution should be to stop testifying under oath in congress but its impossible to overstate how much peril jeff sessions is in politically w...

A spokesman for the special counsel push back on that. "when we have a tamed emails the course of an ongoing criminal investigation we have secured either the account owners consent or appropriate criminal process." alan dershowitz, as you mentioned a lifelong democrat says this was a close legal call so it was foolish for mueller to fail to make this airtight by seeking an easily obtainable warrant. im adding that mueller should have immediately disclosed to the public he had in fact removed th...

Was for puerto rico, it was a complete zero. they got absolutely nothing. this is probably a combination of a couple things that caused that. first the government has a credibility problem in d.c. dating back to the white house scandal, then the death toll. and the fact the white house was somewhat hiding the ball. is that how they got shut out of this tax bill? maybe, maybe not. what probably happened was it was a casualty of needing to move the bill very quickly and puerto rico doesnt have muc...

>> i think he has a credibility problem. he should have been more careful about who he hired. he has been conducting a sloppy investigation and thats a typical of him. im surprised. when you were going up president you have to be caesars wife. you have to be above reproach. >> another democrat, mark penn who advised democrat bill clinton has just conducted a poll that found 54% of the public believes that mueller has conflicts of interest in this investigation. at 63% of the public said the fbi ...

>> im not a republican, im a democrat. i think he has a credibility problem. he should have been more careful about who he hired. he should have disclosed he had taken that f.b.i. agent off the case after his messages came out. i think he has a credibility problem on these emails without a warrant. i think he has a credibility problem if he used the dossier in order to get national security wiretaps. he has been conducting a sloppy investigation and thats atypical of him. im surprised. when you ...

Trump says he wont fire mueller. >> it is a legal possibility. it would be foolish to do. mueller is in a good position. a lot of american public think he is biased against trump and it may lead him to lean over backwards in favor of trump. so if i were trump, i wouldnt try to fire him. i would continue to keep the pressure on and raise issues about the emails, etc. now, mueller is playing into his hands. mueller was really foolish in not seeking warrants for those emails. it is a close question...

Investigators have called into question the credibility of the investigation and they just get reassigned to human resources or another guy to another high-level job outside the investigation. yes, the f.b.i. has a huge credibility problem on their hands. >> everybody has opinions. all three of us has opinions. doesnt mean we cant do our job. f.b.i. official strzok was in that position. hey, it could be politically damaging but doesnt speak to the integrity of the investigation that was conducte...