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Obstructed justice or did anything for the charges. it might actually undermine mr. muellers case. >> exactly. i mean, look, there is no smoking gun in this book. if there were, we would have read about it across the top of "the new york times" and "the washington post". all it is, is a personal complaint about donald trump. nonetheless, james comey is doing interviews on every media outlet in this country, and, you know, trump is in a blood war with the mainstream media. we know that. and they ...

Learned here from the book about the comey relationship with trump? >> no, i think were learning that director comey hated donald trump as much as donald trump seems to hate directer comey -- paul: lets take out the "seems." [laughter] >> right. it just seems donald trump doesnt leave a lot of doubt -- paul: yeah, slime ball? >> however, the substance of the note, i think, is true. about lying to congress -- when he told congress i didnt make my decision on indicting hillary inform after we inte...

Questions, why was mueller appointed, what is mueller looking at, much of it including the presidents own political problems outside of mueller come back to things he did himself. and were not existential things that came ot him. >> cant put it better. michael, heidi, chuck and paul, coming up today the white house press secretary said they believe at the white house the president has the power to fire robert mueller who is prosecuting him. what happens if trump does it? what do republican dozen...

Terms of the president someday sitting there with robert mueller, there are a lot of people sitting around him, his informal kitchen cabinet, when he retreats to the white house and calls around, almost to a person no one thinks thats a good idea. >> i have one more word. gene says you shouldnt fight the fbi and thats probably true. look, he fired comey, what, seven months ago? it didnt work out great for him. it got mueller appointed but in terms of public support, trumps about where he was sev...

On robert muellers team at the special counsels office left the team under mysterious circumstances. now, peter strzok was a big deal, chief of the fbis counter espionage section. and when mueller appointed special counsel he recruited strzok to help lead the special counsels probe into russian meddling. and just weeks after mueller recruited him to the special counsels office, strzok mysteriously gone and he wasnt just gone back to counter espionage. he was gone to human resources. and no disre...

The truth. why would the fbi got in to discus that with him. doesnt seem to be a crime -- neil: should the president as he arrives in new york, should he be worried or celebrating about tax cut? >> i dont think he should be worried about collusion, there has not been evidence of that. theres a distraction the longer that this goes on. ive been saying for months this thing needs to be circumscribed. it doesnt involve the reason that he was appointed to begin with. neil: real quickly on some other...

Trumps campaigned, that was the reason mueller appointed, everything hey, deal with the russians and other countries. they were trying to beat back the israel resolution, we will veto it. neil: abc news dialed back the tweet actually that these conversations -- if you had the cynical view that you were trying to rig something, the election is over. >> he has 300 electoral votes and president elect and collude about the election, the timeline doesnt work. until theres any evidence of that, a lot ...

About entitlement programs or growth? >> i think both sides need to get serious and they need to be more honest in their presentation of what this tax cut represents. theres a reason that the number one trending item all of last night was #gop tax cuts, theres a real concerns that people have been bamboozled and we have ceos, even when diane feinstein gave senators an option to say all of the breaks youre going to give, what stockholders are going to get and pay increases and guess what, every s...

And so the executive or anchor being charged. nbc, biggest example this week with oust of matt laer. difference between what happens in corporate america and what happens with our, well, representatives of america, it is odd, is it not? >> people are frustrated. the moment an allegation comes out, the person loses their job, it can just take just a matter of hours whereas politicians they all seem to be holding on but its also true that there is a reason why that happens and there is an efficien...

Our viewers of the role of rod rosenstein in this process? the relationship between him and mueller and why its crucial here and why mueller would have had to have given him a heads up. >> well, because attorney general jeff sessions has recused himself from this investigation, brian, rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, is the person at the justice department who is overseeing this special counsel investigation. he approves the budget and he gets regular reporting on the scope. in fact ...