corner and hit a hundred lawyers in d.c. why they had to put this one there was a mistake. it doesn t mean he should be fired. it doesn t mean the president should be given credit for not firing him. if this is correct, the president was about to do a remarkably self-defeating act and one that would be grossly inappropriate. but i don t think it makes a case for obstruction. people look at each of these changes and say there it is. there is the piece we are looking for and he has defenses. well, i think jonathan sort of made my point which is you look at so many different acts that the president has done whether it is telling james comey to be loyal whether it is telling him to go easy on his national security adviser. whether it is firing james
imperialist state. they would pass things around in note form. it would take on a life and mythology on its own. so it is a dig with russia but it s really evoke active phrase. the way things are passed around among the aides at the white house, there is an open whisper campaign. you never know what s on the record and off the record because everyone is whispering. the truth is being told but under the subrosa. he could have said a lot of things. but using that term, a.b., seems like an intentional thing by wolff. do you have problems with the reporting technique? again, i m not sticking up for michael wolff s reporting because there are too many people that are credible critics of it to ignore. it doesn t mean, as i said before, that all of this is not true. it affirms and confirms what we have already heard both from senators i have spoken to him
one day says, you know what? i didn t find anything, it s pretty low. paul: all right. what about, dan, the other side of in that mary alluded to, the fbi role in theç 2016 campaign? we ve had a lot of evidence come out about the anti-trump sympathies of some of the fbi people and the prosecutors working on the mueller probe. it doesn t mean, in my view necessarily, that the mueller probe is tainted, it just means that it makes it harder for him to be able to sell to the american public that he is looking at this in a fair-minded way. that is the key point, i think, paul. it will be harder for him to sell this to the american public or at least half of the american public if they can divide it between democrats and republicans. so i think the difficulty here is that what the democrats believe is that there was obstruction. senator dianne feinstein said on television identifying the idea that trump asked to go easy on mike flynn.
one day says, you know what? i didn t find anything, it s pretty low. paul: all right. what about, dan, the other side of in that mary alluded to, the fbi role in theç 2016 campaign? we ve had a lot of evidence come out about the anti-trump sympathies of some of the fbi people and the prosecutors working on the mueller probe. it doesn t mean, in my view necessarily, that the mueller probe is tainted, it just means that it makes it harder for him to be able to sell to the american public that he is looking at this in a fair-minded way. that is the key point, i think, paul. it will be harder for him to sell this to the american public or at least half of the american public if they can divide it between democrats and republicans. so i think the difficulty here is that what the democrats believe is that there was obstruction. senator dianne feinstein said on television identifying the idea to go easy on mike flynn. paul: right. that s the obstruction.
they talk about it. they write about it. this isn t new. it doesn t mean that the mueller investigation is looking dodgy. there s no basis for that. well, i think there s basis, or at least people on our side of the fence believe that. at the same time, i ve got to believe the person most upset about this beyond donald trump would be robert mueller himself. he got rid of him. yeah, but also, after he did that, he should have, you know, been more forthcoming with information. congress wanted to know immediately why he had done it. and for some reason, they delayed that for a long, long time. a stand-up guy would have come clean immediately. you don t think bob mueller is a stand-up guy? i believe bob mueller is after the truth here and he s following the truth wherever it leads him so he is a stand-up guy? well, i understand that. but, listen, the slow response to requests for information on strzok by the united states congress was not a good look for the mueller investi