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Point hes trying to make is that the clear purpose of the russia investigation is to review russias meddling in h the election and that should be the focus of the investigation, nothing beyond that. >> that should not be viewrd as a threat or warning as it relates to the presidents finances. >> the presidents making clear that the special counsel should not move outside of the scope of the investigation. >> sarah sanders off camera. the to her -- to exactly the area the presidents warning is a n...

As well. so hes correct that if theres going to be progress in this area it probably would be in the area of claim of abuse of power. >> this was supposed to look at the possible collusion. is it muellers face to widen the cope of this and look for obstruction of justice or other high crimes? >> well, its part of his mandate. the rosenstein mandate said look at the counterintelligence, look at the collusion stuff, look at whether or not theres been any efforts to obstruct justice. its right in t...

Of the american electoral process. >> but you guys cant do this. you are too inherently partisan. you got to leave to it fbi and now to mueller and let them do it. you cant get the politics -- >> it makes -- i dont know congress cant inherently do it. maybe not. certainly this republican congress cannot do it and you see how partisan they have been. that doesnt mean you have to leave to it mueller. mull certificate conducting a criminal investigation. we have to get to the bottom of what happene...

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Theyre going to say. take it or leave it. whats muellers option, subpoena. whats trumps option? he could cave or he more likely will say no, im not going to seed to the subpoena. well take it to court. he doesnt have to fire mueller. but what he is doing is laying the ground work to delegitimize mueller and resist a mueller subpoena. and that puts this into the realm of the courts to slug it out. does, you know, mueller have the adequate criminal predicate to prevail. ultimately it goes to the s...

>> what has happened in the last 24 hours that made you change your mind on this? >> when i was going over everything today, when i look at the -- the subpoena, this is ridiculous. should i spend 50 hours gooding over all ov ov over all -- going over all of my mails with roger and steve bannon. and then they wanted maie-mails had with hope hicks, with cory lewandowski. are you giving me a break? you know what they asked, which is ridiculous to me. they asked things like did you hear people speak...